"Menus at the top of the screen provide consistency between applications. You don't have to wonder if an application's menu items are behind a hamburger menu"

"Menus at the top of the screen provide consistency between applications. You don't have to wonder if an application's menu items are behind a hamburger menu" Menus' consistency has nothing to do with where they are positioned. You're talking about bad design. You can just as easily have dumb, non-standard affordances at the top of the screen... you see it on iOS all the time. And the "slamming the cursor" argument is countered by having to move the cursor much farther, especially on large monitors with lots of real estate. Not to mention that vanishingly few users actually do this.