> When watching this I'm shocked how bad the UX Was these days. The scrollbar left, the triple steped menu...

Perhaps the only thing "bad" about it is that you're simply not used to it. I can certainly think of someone used to that UI thinking the same thing about today's interfaces, with disappearing scrollbars, flat design and confusing icons.

The deeply nested menu for entering the url, that’s bad, I agree. But why is a scrollbar on the other side better or worse?

I have the minimap configured on the left in vs code and use it as scrollbar. It’s quite nice actually.

It has a certain charm, like everything engineered without immediate commercial considerations

Menus can be torn off and positioned as desired.

I miss that.