Scrollbars are becoming a problem.

Yeah, this clown-level shit is one of the reasons computers and devices in general have gotten so much harder to use over the past decade or so. And it’s not just scrollbars — as this comment obliquely discusses, it’s also window borders (title bars) that are indistinguishable and have no focus highlighting any longer.

The author of the piece doesn’t even discuss the best use of a scrollbar, which is to indicate where in a document you are. That’s why it’s a real loss to have them be taken away.

I do agree that it’s bad designers causing some of this, but a lot of it is anything that looks flashy to MBAs in the room is what ships, usability be damned. Of course that does not explain why Linux GUIs have also adopted most of these terrible “features” and sometimes pioneered them.

I really miss when computers worked correctly and actually helped you rather than hampered you.