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> natural direction is simply different for both

That’s 100 % subjective. There’s not a single reason why sliding your finger on a mechanical movable surface should behave differently than sliding it on a touch sensitive surface. You’re used to it behaving differently and that’s fine, but I prefer to have the same behavior for both and neither of us is right or wrong.

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Subjective or not, it definitely doesn't make sense to lock them together. If you change one, the other will also change. The fact that it doesn't allow me to have different settings for the mouse and trackpad doesn't make sense to me.

But of course there is a reason- wheel is mentally mapped to the windows' scroll bar Touch pad is mentally mapped to the view/document like on a phone Calling it subjective doesn't eliminate it

Definitely not mentally mapped for me, so it’s subjective.

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