If you think using the golden ratio will solve actual problems for you, you're wrong. In general, the design of a screen layout should come from the type and amount of content you need for users to perform a task, not from an arbitrary number. This stuff smells like magical thinking to me.
Golden ratio is not arbitrary, it solves the problem: How to make sure nothing lines up.
This link gets passed around a lot and it's very illuminating, demonstrating that the golden ratio is objectively "the most irrational number": https://youtu.be/sj8Sg8qnjOg
