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>I had never thought about it until now, but from a UX perspective would a copier be better if you could scan face-up instead of face-down?

You can. Any decent office printer does exactly this: you put a stack of papers in the auto document feeder and press a button and it scans all of them, double-sided if you want. Even simple photocopiers were doing this back in the 80s and 90s.

I feel that office juniors must have been making that mistake since the 1960s? It doesn't need a "gen z is dumb lol" article.

The first time I had to fax something I put it in face down, like in a copier. And sent a blank page.

On other hand. It should be reasonable to figure out, if one were to stop and think about how it must work.

You have this transparent glass on one side and then opaque white on other... Per usual understanding you can see through other and can't through other.