I love how these different usage patterns can make the same thing great for some and terrible for others. It reminds me of my experience on quite a few websites:

I'm one of those people who likes to select the text they're reading - or at least the first line or so of the paragraph I'm in. It helps me not lose track of where I am.

However, that means I'm often continuously selecting/double-clicking lines of text in an article. Unfortunately, some websites now show a popover menu next to text you select, e.g. to tweet that line of text. That popover menu often obscures the text I'm reading.

That's something that would go completely unnoticed when the design is tested on people that simply scroll down while they're reading.

Similarly but yet completely different I always positon the mouse cursor away from the text I'm reading, since I find the cursor distracting. Nowadays that sometimes has an annoying side effect: some news sites have video thumbnails in side columns. If the mouse cursors hovers over one of them for a few seconds, the browser opens the page with the full video. Gone is the article I was reading.

I don't understand what problem the developers were trying to solve with that feature/bug.

Same reason I won’t ever touch a Touchbar if you’ll pardon the pun. For some reason I trained my left hand ring finger to rest on Esc key.

This is true with all remote controls to some degree.