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Wouldn’t vertical scrolling make more sense?
Pretty much everything we do already scrolls vertically primarily, its more “natural” at this point.
Well that could be annoying if you’re trying to scroll past an open application but you end up vertically scrolling within the application instead.
The exact same thing would happen if you tried to scroll horizontally though? It's a 2d axis on a wheel, depending on where your focus is you're going to go the same direction.