Why is the scroll bar in Windows 11 so narrow? In what world is this an improvement?

The argument about not needing the scrollbar because there is a scroll wheel is just nonsense. I find myself using the scrollbar all the time, because it's just much less effort than using the wheel. When dealing with a large view, there's no other practical way to move around quickly, other than to the very beginning or end.

This decision is from the same top-down designer-led school of thought as electronic parking brakes.

Yet another example of Microsoft thinking they know what's best for their users and making changes when no changes needed to be made. Sad.

I use a graphics tablet almost exclusively, so I do not have a scroll wheel. Microsoft should not make assumptions about how people will use their software and give us easy to change options for things like scroll bars so we can do things like set them not to collapse when we do not have the cursor over them and make them wider so they are easy to use.

Certainly, have defaults for what you think the majority want, but you should always make them easy to change for the minority!

And, I don't have a scroll wheel on my laptop touchpad. Microsoft has assumed a narrow case example as a reason for narrowing the scroll bars. I did the regedit mod but it doesn't apply to all windows I encounter.

Some people, like me, find that using the scroll wheel hurts the tip of our fingers, so some of us won't find this feature helpful.

The problem with Microsoft making big changes like this is that people get used to a certain way of working and then Microsoft makes all kinds of UI changes and we have to spend weeks reorienting ourselves to new ways of doing things. Can't you add options for feature changes without actually getting rid of the feature as it currently is? The scroll bars could have remained wider and then people could be offered the option to make them thinner.

And, I have to tell you that from what I have experienced Windows 11 is most definitely NOT an improvement over Windows 10. I have run into far too many problems with this new O/S. Putting aside all of the UI changes and things missing from menus and the Apple-style of showing icons only without names -- my major reason for never having purchased an Apple product -- since Windows 11 was forced onto my computer I have had to deal with periodic rejection of my charger; constant freezing of Explorer; having apps open, but their windows small, then not becoming large again when I click on their icons on the taskbar,forcing me to close the apps and reopen them to get the windows large; having Word files suddenly hide my taskbar for no apparent reason in the middle of working with them; and many other problems.

In the past I would always recommend Windows as an operating system to anyone first purchasing a computer, but now I'm tempted to just tell people to look for some sort of Linux platform to avoid the problems of Windows 11 and the ridiculous changes forced on us by Microsoft.