Ton of people complained, they hated it!
That's why everything is fucking boring, because everybody tries to cater to the average.
https://www.espn.com/espn/feature/story/_/id/43832710/how-f1...
A bit quirky is exactly how I would have described it and once I accepted scrolling one direction would move the page wherever the designer wanted, I was fine.
I guess we found all the kids at Ender’s battle school that couldn’t imagine the enemy’s gate as “down”.
This is why consistent UX beats out cleaver design (churn)
Like if someone wants to do crazy stuff, that’s fine, do it as an art project, whatever.
But IMO the only people who benefit when businesses and institutions are required to turn their websites into works of art, are artists. Everyone else is worse off.