> Never really figured out how to be productive w/ Mission Control and full screen apps

Has anyone? I'd love to see the stats on this. One of those things that looks prettier than it is useful.

It works wonderfully for me at least, for one counter anecdata. It only works well because I can swipe back and forth between screens with the touchpad. I don’t know how I would use a mac without one.

To me the full screen feature is really useful. I work with my notebook in a stand right by the side of an external display. On the notebook I keep everything in full screen mode except for the VS Code windows, which stay in the other monitor. When I need to switch from browser to Slack, Spark (email client) or Spotify, I just have to swipe with two fingers on my Magic Mouse or with four fingers in MacBook's Magic Trackapd.

TotalSpaces 2 gives you a 2-d desktop grid again! Unfortunately it also requires disabling (parts of) System Integrity Protection because of the way it interacts with the Dock.

you can still do spaces.

You have to enable mission control and enter it with the bar across the top.

Then hit (+) to get a bunch of desktops.

Then go into keyboard shortcuts and you can assign keyboard keys to each space.

In mission control settings you have to turn off rearrange.

(backed out of latest os's not certain if it's in still in catalina)