No, I'm with you. I think it's needless most of the time. People are arguing uses, but Star Trek really takes it to a needless level. I remember an episode of, I think, TNG where someone has to be trained and is given a big box of PADDs to read. Jake has a different PADD for everything he writes.

I have a two monitor system on my desktop and I do use all of that desktop space, but there's a limit to how many screens I could see myself ever needing.

And really, you would think Starfleet would come up with something more efficient.