What is the best way to solve problems with when the content of the page ends, and the menu on the left is not there yet?

Question

Layout

An illustrative example
https://codepen.io/poylar/pen/rNeqaWK
The content in the center of the site is over, but there is no menu on the left yet and the user has to twist the void for a long time to get to the footrea? How do they act in such situations?
the menu is longer than the height of any screen, almost the entire page goes.

Answer 1

In such a situation, they usually think about grouping the menu, or hide part of the menu in "N more items"
Here is an example of how Leroy copes with a similar situation, they generally combine these techniques.

Answer 2

The menu is not smaller than the content block, if the menu is larger, a vertical scroll appears in the menu block.