Agreed. My scroll wheel should scroll the page, not advance slides or split birds or whatever else. If you need to do this kind of information display, use buttons or a UI widget to control it. Don't hijack the HID devices I use for accessibly operating my computer.

This goes for Scroll Wheels, Scrollbars, the Back Button, the Right Click Button, or any other standard input paradigm. (please) Don't fuck with these! Some of us make use of accessibility features, and messing with our interfaces makes these break or behave in unexpected ways.

I'd be annoyed if my bank did this, or airlines, or anything where I just need to get a task done.

For personal websites, I actually think individuality and fun and creativity are good.

It's aggressively inaccessible. I don't know if it's a "I'm a web designer, I know better" thing or what.

Web designers: Don't let form interfere with function. The function of this page is to communicate information about transformers. The form effectively prevents that from happening. Don't do it. No, bad, stop.

This. You can’t use reader mode, you can’t save the page as a PDF, you can’t use PageUp/PageDown because you’ll miss some in-between state, and the scroll position where a certain image is shown may not be the preferred one for reading the corresponding text. And the JS will invariably break sooner or later.