Even with inch wide menu bar items, the fact that the menu bar is a mile high still completely overwhelms the cost of the distance of moving the cursor to the m

Even with inch wide menu bar items, the fact that the menu bar is a mile high still completely overwhelms the cost of the distance of moving the cursor to the menu bar. And you can move back and forth while still moving up, to switch between menu bar items without losing the menu bar target. Do the math. Do the experiments. Measure the results. Read the papers. Thought experiments are no good.