Good article!

Personally, I believe that a website should deliver in
accordance to its objective.

Optimizing a website for usability is great but care should
be taken that over optimization doesn’t affect its content.

“Limited scrolling – be it horizontal or vertical”

Limiting scrolling often impacts on other features such as clear headers and helpful use of white space. I would generally agree with a statement such as “try to limit scrolling to only vertical or horizontal”, additionally as the most common paradigm is vertical then attempting to remove horizontal scrolling is normally a superior method.

Limiting scrolling for the sake of it normally results in poor design decisions. It is better to say if a page requires scrolling confirm that it is necessary, can the language be made more concise or can the elements be reworked to generally remove scrolling. Being overzealous in this aspect can lead to lost of useful information from articles and websites designed to only look good on small screen devices, and upset users who have more space and would benefit from more information.