Re: Mice are not particularly intuitive
"A bit like cars - it took them a while to standardise..."
It's taken motorbikes even longer to settle on a 'standard' configuration with left lever = clutch and right pedal = rear brake... and now with automatic / clutchless transmissions and electric bikes I think we will soon be going back to the layout that is more familiar from bicycles*, ie left lever is back brake and the feet just stay on the pegs with no controls to work with. As to 'minor' controls, BMW have only recently settled on the 'single switch for all indicators' that everyone else uses. My old R still has 3 seperate switches for left / right indicators and turning them off.
To be honest I don't think ANY of that is intuitive, some layouts are easier to work with than others, and we get used to them because we learned that a long time ago. That counts for mice as well as for vehicles.
* I do wish bicycles would standardise left/right levers as rear/front or front/rear.
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