A solution which does not let the user scroll with the thumb is
inconsistent, damaging the feature as a whole, and possibly problematic
for people with limited hardware, as in your suggested solution.

In my case, I prefer to use the thumb, so having that not "just work"
wherever I see a scrollbar is confusing. Not only that, but I frequently
work on a Thinkpad which has neither a scroll wheel nor a track pad to
support "two finger scrolling".

Unless you have hard data to the contrary, and a policy which explicitly
supports excluding a known portion of your users, I'd recommend against
any justification which relies on people interacting with their computer
in precisely the way you do. Otherwise you risk creating one of the
thousand cuts which make an interface just too painful to use.

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Title:
  Cannot scroll in small areas

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