Does kmscon brings back the much missed scrolling backwards ability that the console used to have decades ago?
It does, and much more. It's basically a "what if we actually cared about fully text mode computing" project. It even has stuff like optional GPU acceleration (which a lot of people scoff at, but is very much necessary for very high screen resolutions combined with TUIs), mouse support, and multiseat configurations.
Wow that's brilliant.
I'd experiment with it except I'm running Wayland from the console the old fashioned way.