User blog comment:Rupert Giles/Global Navigation Update/@comment-162.253.24.61-20141205091311/@comment-173.189.176.86-20141205161140

2. Fallacious idea and horrible analogy. There is no reason to expect all wikis to look the same. That's akin to saying MSN and Yahoo should use the same website layouts because they're both web portals, or that Newgrounds and Kongregate should use the same layout because they're both Flash/Unity portals.

Your analogy does not fly because there is a much better reason why Toyota doesn't change the steering wheel to a joystick. Ready for it? Ok, here you go. With a joystick, you could not maintain the same kind of control over the car as you could with a wheel. It's not a question of what you're used to, it's a question of physics. For a joystick to be able to maintain that degree of control, it would require a far more complicated set-up than does the steering wheel.

A steering wheel operates by turning a wheel which, in turn, pulls a set of rods which pulls/pushes your wheels in the appropriate direction. Very little force is required to do so.

A joystick attached the exact same way may work, but it would not have near the efficency. You would have to expend much more force to accomplish the same thing.

In the case of power steering, the same would still hold true. With a joystick you would have to expend considerably more force to achieve the exact same results.

Don't get me wrong, I'm on your side with regard to disliking the nav bar that's being tested. It's just that a couple of your arguments (someone else brought up the other big one) are faulty.

Argument number 1, on the other hand, I agree with whole-heartedly.