I think option 2, is the right one. Anything can be good, if done right (or used in the right place, same thing). For instance, I'd consider a stock ticker, to be maybe usefull. Or any other situation ...

Ladybird will now keep scroll-driven animations & text selection smooth even when JavaScript blocks the main thread.

Out of all the Web design fads to emerge since the glossy days when Web 2.0 was cool, scrolling (parallax) websites have emerged as a surprisingly powerful and useful trend. This attention-grabbing ...

I've got a problem I'm attempting to solve involving scrolling the content of a div sideways when the user clicks a button - the button is nested a couple of levels inside. I should say that using ...