Isn't that (Vertically scrolling on a horizontally oriented screen) how the majority of the web works (including this very forum)?

Seriously I don't know if it is
that much astep backwards in user-friendlyness. Heck, that has been part of the Finder all the way back to Panther (2003) as shown at the end of this post. Never mind there are parts of the system panel that work like that since Catalina: Notifications, Accessibility, Internet Accounts, Network, Extensions, User and Groups (if you have a lot of them), as well as Security and Privacy.
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