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this post reads like an entitled youth complaining about old people.
you know that video of the kids that can't figure out how to use a rotary dial telephone? yeah, that's exactly what happens to old folks who can't figure out how to use a smart phone, or computer, or a smart TV, or a, or a, or a...
technological context is important. you can't just pick up a piece of technology and immediately understand how to use it. you have to understand not just how it works, but why it works the way it does. knowing the why takes a history of the whole feature.
it'd be like if I posted a meme you have zero context about and I make fun of you for not understanding it and call you an old dumb fuck for not grasping on the basic understandings of why it's funny.
The issue as I have presented isn't one of "Old People Dumb", but one of the idea that older people shouldn't refuse to learn about something because they are "too old". Or enabling that line of thinking. I recently had a customer buy a new computer for me and paid for a setup. I needed account details, and he had no idea what his accounts were, his passwords, just that he wanted his computer setup. When I asked for any passwords to get the setup done, he didn't know because his kids set all that up. If the kids took a moment to show him what was going on, how things worked, maybe he would have had an idea when he needed it.