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

I've edited the registry to increase scrollbar width and height, but it's still not back to 'normal'; the 'borders' around the scrollbar are too wide, leaving the normal scrollbar swimming in a much too wide vertical frame. Microsoft, I insist that you make your poor new scrollbar implementation optional with a Setting.

That's not an improvement because it was there already, since 1996 and the first mouse with a scroll wheel. You don't use computers do you.

What's handy is being able to scroll a large document to a specific part very fast. I encourage you to try to use a mouse wheel to scroll through an entire PDF book with hundreds of pages, and watch you throw your computer out the window because it is too slow and frustrating.

The biggest recent improvement (which the narrow or hidden scrollbars destroy) is some programs like chrome and matlab mark the location of a searched word on the scroll bar with a thin line, so you can instantly see how many and where they are in a document and immediately scroll to that location.

"No need to hunt for a scroll bar"

How is it a need when you have a mouse with a wheel that scrolls the page no matter what the scrollbar looks like?

Before there was no need. With disappearing or narrower scrollbars, there is a need.

Now, there's even more hunting and worse, confusion. Now you spend far more time scrolling, get repetitive strain injury, carpal tunnel syndrome and increase eye strain hunting and positioning the mouse when you need to scroll in a large document. Disappearing scrollbars make it even worse because you're not sure where to move the mouse to make it appear.

"Windows 11 aims to provide a sleek and modern user interface. Narrower scroll bars contribute to a cleaner and less cluttered appearance, which is in line with current design trends that emphasize minimalism."

And, yet, Microsoft decided to make the task bar so big that it's practically screaming at you and added some stupid ribbon to the file explorer that you can't get rid of. A ribbon, I might add, that has tools that literally everyone uses keyboard shortcuts to achieve.

I call bs on the notion that MS is going for "minimalism" and instead continues to ignore its users and do whatever it wants.

Like the idiots who make you scrool wheel or click through each month from todays date to get to your birthday 5 or 6 decades ago, I know that we are usually needing healthcare services considered out-of-network but at least make it so you can ener a birthday. Anyone over 1 year old would be annoyed with this method. Too much focus on cuteness vs functionality for the user and they don't even want to allow people to customize, we all have yave to be the same....robots.