No shit Watson, that’s exactly what I’m talking about.

My first laptop was a Toshiba 1950CT from 1994, upgraded from Windows 3.1 to 95. The screen refresh time (not to be confused with vertical refresh rate), was about a half a second.

Move the mouse pointer, it would take about half a second before the old cursor faded out and the new position cursor appeared.

I had my cursor trails set to either 2 or 3 on that thing, because moving the cursor at all made it otherwise totally disappear while the screen faded in and out between frames.

I see someone doesn’t use multiple monitors.

But hey, that’s okay, you do you 👍

Still though, if you ever setup 3 or more monitors, you’ll find out that feature is quite useful to answer the question “What fucking screen is the mouse pointer on?!”

That leaving trails feature was more designed for very old school LCDs with extremely slow refresh time, but yeah indeed it was a feature to help visibility.