[blix]

It's so you can doomscroll for hours without realizing how much content you have consumed. It's pointless to know how much is left because the feed is infinite. You can't ever get to the bottom that a scroll bar would imply as new content is loaded.

It is an enabler of information overload, not a solution or respite.

[epistasis]

I was being sarcastic, as I absolutely despise the lack of scroll bars. But perhaps I was being too subtle