Less is the epitome of modern Unix decadence.

agree 
 
Besides the
maddening behavior described above, why, when all screens have a scroll bar,
should a pager do its own scrolling?

in lieu of X scrollbars, there's also terminal multiplexers like tmux or screen.  Also, there's the case of working directly on a character cell terminal or console (rare these days, I admit, but I still do it frequently enough to occasionally get caught without a scrollback buffer and lose important stuff).  Hence my use of tmux et al.. 

So, yeah, agree.