Launching a project is not the same as restoring a desk
Project launchers remember files and apps. Most of them do not remember where the windows went. Layout is the part you still do by hand — unless the desk itself is the unit of work.
Opening everything is only half of starting
A project launcher that can open folders, websites, and apps with one click is solving a real problem: finding the pieces. What it usually cannot do is put those pieces where you had them. Windows land wherever the app last died. Displays disagree. You spend the first minutes of “work” dragging.
Some tools tell you to bolt on Apple Shortcuts or a window manager after launch. That works if you like maintaining scripts. It is also an admission that launching and laying out are different jobs.
The desk is the thing to save
Amhara Sessions treat the desk as the unit. A session can close what does not belong, launch the apps, files, and sites that do, and tile windows into a layout across your displays. When a session starts, Amhara can save the desk you are leaving and put it back when the session ends — so a meeting does not have to destroy the writing layout you had, and Evening does not have to inherit Deep Work's browser stack.
That is closer to “reopen the room” than “open these links.” Project launchers remain good at catalogs of resources. They are not a substitute for a layout you can come back to.