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Backstage's page structure is designed with a central layout containing the sidebar and header, which then renders the specific content for the current page (often including components from various plugins). Making a scrolling, full-width footer appear consistently inside the main content area of every single page (including plugin pages we don't control directly) is problematic. The standard layout doesn't provide a reliable hook to inject content globally into that specific inner spot. Attempting to force this with global CSS overrides is fragile and likely to break core Backstage layouts or future updates. A fixed footer bar that respects the sidebar area is a more feasible approach within this architecture.