Every Website on Earth Uses the Same Scroll Physics. Why?

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Open any website. Scroll. Now open a different website. Scroll again. Same feel. Same momentum. Same friction. Same inertia. Every website on Earth uses identical scroll physics because the browser's scroll engine is a black box. You can listen to events, smooth them (Lenis), animate things on scroll (GSAP ScrollTrigger). But you cannot change how scroll feels. Why should a long-form article scroll at the same speed as a photo gallery? Why should a CTA section fly past at the same momentum as

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