The title is so click baity and the whole premise seems flawed.

Spacial reasoning wouldn't work on mac if the users were constantly resizing their monitor. If you always want your website to look and feel the same, keep your browser the same size.

If you don't want a site optimized for small screens, don't make your screen small.

Additionally, this is all complaints with no solution.

It's not an anti pattern if it's the only way to solve a real problem.