[Minor49er]

One bad trend gave rise to a second bad trend: hiding the scrollbar only to replace it with a progress bar

Years ago, most browsers that had the ability to scroll a page would always show a scrollbar, regardless if scrolling was needed or not. Apple set a trend by hiding the scrollbar and would only show it when someone was actively trying to scroll a page. This means that there's more screen real estate to work with, but for a reader, they don't know where they are on a given page until they try to navigate. A lot of websites and interfaces have also adopted this trend

Some websites today include a progress bar at the top or bottom of a page so that you know how much of the page that you have read. The problem with this is that the progress bar is on a different axis than the content itself and is already made unnecessary by the option of simply showing the scroll bar. Some of these pages even have both

It's such a silly thing but I can't help by roll my eyes whenever I encounter it