I'm imagining similar post about the removal of dedicated copy/paste buttons. "But I don't want to use the keyboard to copy"
> Ok so a lot of folks have fine motor control problems
That's what accessibility settings are for. These aren't an afterthought. Good interfaces are designed with them in mind.
> somewhat inaccurate pointing devices like eye-trackers [...]
voice/sound controlling their computer
Desktop interfaces aren't a good fit for these modalities anyways, and I don't want a 1% use-case detracting from my ui. If you designed an interface from the ground up for eye-tracking, it probably also wouldn't have any scrollbars (see Apple Vision)
A bigger problem are signifiers that something can be scrolled. Mostly it's self-evident that there's more content outside the viewport, but sometimes you run into edge-cases: iOS used to have some bad spots in the share sheet and Apple Music.
> Ok so a lot of folks have fine motor control problems
That's what accessibility settings are for. These aren't an afterthought. Good interfaces are designed with them in mind.
> somewhat inaccurate pointing devices like eye-trackers [...] voice/sound controlling their computer
Desktop interfaces aren't a good fit for these modalities anyways, and I don't want a 1% use-case detracting from my ui. If you designed an interface from the ground up for eye-tracking, it probably also wouldn't have any scrollbars (see Apple Vision)
A bigger problem are signifiers that something can be scrolled. Mostly it's self-evident that there's more content outside the viewport, but sometimes you run into edge-cases: iOS used to have some bad spots in the share sheet and Apple Music.