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That is because it does not actually take control away from you with any sticky/magnetic spots. A lot of scrolljack presentations have a really laggy pagination that is somehow about as precise as fast rewinding your DVR was back in 2011.

Yes, that's a sure way to make it bad. I don't think it's given (as a sibling comment to yours suggests) that simply not doing that is sufficient for any other scroll manipulation being fine though.

The intention's always good, I think, it just rarely is as nice as the author felt it would be.

I'm about to switch to desktop to see this, because I was just browsing on Firefox (on Android) and it was a complete mess

big difference between scrolljacking and just using the scroll position for something. This is a legit good use of it, because the actual scroll behaves exactly the same as any other page.

I just wish it didn't have the giant useless light/dark mode button covering a chunk of the screen.