Scroll hijacking is absolutely deplorable. Who in their right mind thinks this is a good idea? And I don't mean that sarcastically, but who... in their sane and healthy mind, thinks its a good idea to blindly overwrite a user's personal scroll preference and neuter it, muck it up, and completely change it to something thats not as performant, clunky, buggy, and doesn't match the speed their used to.
I gave up reading the article because I shot past the paragraph a bunch of times.