> Also, try to teach a young person to use an old program

Funny enough, the few times I had to do that, it turned out to be easy.

Why? Because the software may not look shiny, but it's obvious and discoverable. There is the menu-bar. It says "File". The assumption that "File" is the right place to look for the button that saves the work to a file is one that comes pretty naturally. And of course the keybind is written right there next to the menu item.

Ugly? Maybe. But it's obvious and gets the job done.

Now let's look at some "modern" software, and the Button to save is...yeah, anyones guess really where it is.

Might be in some hamburger or sub-hamburger.

Might be in some animated menu that I have to scroll beyond the various cloud-store options to store to disk, which is a common dark pattern, because cloud solutions are something I can sell, while the users disk isn't.

There might be some gesture-based menu, even in desktop apps.

It may be a button in the interface, but which one is anyones guess ... because apparently the floppy disk icon is not "modern" enough, so there may be any combination of boxes, arrows, arrows in boxes, or whatever happened to be the ultimate wisdom in save-button design at the time.

I have seen apps where it was in the "Share" menu, right next to whatsapp and facebook integration, because these are vitally important options for all apps apparently.

Having an actual Save button or shortcut is a luxury nowadays. I will admit autosaving is convenient. But there are still places where network connectivity is spotty and one wants to actually confirm that the thing is saved. You're lucky to have a little icon color change or text that says the stuff on the screen is saved. Even when such text exists, it's often off the visible screen. Worse, sometimes a form button will not work and the error message is not visible until you look for it at the bottom or the top of the page where it's not visible.

My other usability pet peeve. Traversing a big number if things by paging. The UI will not give you the total number of pages anymore. You can increment 2 pages at a time. Sometimes you can change the url to try later pages but not always. Sometimes there will be a button for the last (final) page but when you click it, it doesn't exist. To make this even worse most times this is loaded via JavaScript so if you're on the equivalent of page 50. The next time you get there you have to keep loading more until you're on 50 again. There is no way to bookmark state or go there directly. I am assuming this is a JavaScript Json thing that somehow became a pattern, like getting a total count is now impossible or something.

My kindergartener definitely picked up conventional linux desktops faster than iPadOS.

(It's whatever Manjaro defaults to. It looks like xfce, but I'm pretty sure it's KDE. The point being that I don't know because it's not configured terribly out of the box like modern gnome.)

The minecraft launcher does regularly bring him to literal tears though. :-(