It's kind unfortunate that we have a big world, 8 billions of people to select subsets to meet, thousands of things to do and see, and we're glued to screens for multiple hours per day to the detriment of other activities, to the point of lamenting our landscape oriented vision.

It was not so in the era of button phones which typically have the lower half of "facade" filled with buttons.

Yeah but those screens were tiny. If you want a decent size landscape screen to hold naturally, you need to do something crazy like the LG wing with its flipping screen.