Mechanical mice benefited from the use of trackpads: the pad surface let the ball on the mouse underside roll smoothly and the pad was likely to be a bit cleaner than the surrounding desk and so slowed the ball getting clogged with lint. Optical mice don’t need pads most of the time.
It never even occurred to me that mouse pads were on their way out but they are. They do make nice coasters…
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