The only time I've actually liked this pattern is in some New York Times stories. They do it very well. Example:

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/12/17/world/asia/in...

Is there a non-paywalled example?

"Bypass Paywalls" browser extension

I think Apple started that trend with their product pages, and now web designers try to copy that and end up making it even worse.

> ... websites that hijack mouse wheel ...

half way down the page - to suddenly reduce the size of the page content.

This one drives me nuts. So many sites abruptly stop doing something I want (scrolling) to do something I don't (resizing a map or other image), so then I have to undo two kinds of designer brain damage instead of just one.