Displaying the menu and home icon on
screen at all times, comes with trade offs such as:
- less screen space available for other items
- implementation difficulties with floating fixed icons
- distraction from content
- overlap with on-page elements
And that's just what I can think of at 6am, pre-coffee. I would imagine the actual team has dozens of reasons behind their choice.
To choose not to do so is design choice, taking into account the entire situation.
Now you as a single particular end-user may not agree with their choice, but that's not a universal "flaw", but the essence with compromise in general---someone will lose out and be unhappy.
Sorry, should have been more clear. I meant easily Accessible at all times. Usually that is all solved by making the menu disappear when you scroll down but appear again when you scroll up. Also fixes all your listed issues.
Making the navigation menu not easily accessible at all times, where I count having to scroll up 3 pages not easily accessible, is a design flaw to me. Note that my first comment also mentioned to _me_, but that may have been missed before the first coffee went in :).
Displaying the menu and home icon on screen at all times, comes with trade offs such as:
- less screen space available for other items
- implementation difficulties with floating fixed icons
- distraction from content
- overlap with on-page elements
And that's just what I can think of at 6am, pre-coffee. I would imagine the actual team has dozens of reasons behind their choice.
To choose not to do so is design choice, taking into account the entire situation.
Now you as a single particular end-user may not agree with their choice, but that's not a universal "flaw", but the essence with compromise in general---someone will lose out and be unhappy.