Of late (well, probably for ever and a day, but you know) I have been really pained by this thing that apparently all OS desktops do: I've seen it in macOS, Windows 10, and I am pretty sure in Linuxen as well.

(Oh and another weird thing: whenever I start a new post on Blogger, there's already a single whitespace space at the start, that I have to manually remove. What is up with that?)

Back, to wit: Dialog boxes that are lost. Lost behind other windows. Or lost in utterly other dimensions, like when the Windows 10 User Account Control UI. And by lost I don't just mean that I manually shoved them down into the stack so it is all my fault. No, I mean dialog boxes that never appeared on top of the stack. 

(Of course, there's the other excommunicable offense of having a dialog box show up in my face when I am doing something already and - oh, well, there's several different ways that can go horribly wrong, like when they immediately take focus and thus take whatever keystroke is next in the stream that I was busy typing in some other app; or they prevent me from doing something I was desperately trying to do and no I don't want to have to answer your modal dialog right effing now (iOS, you sod).)

The whole thing is just depressing.