[acqq]

My parents still handle easier the UI where they see the "buttons" for the navigation. They are just confused when some of the text is clickable and some is not.

For those who don't know them, the "buttons" like "Cancel" "Next" here:

https://www.dummies.com/wp-content/uploads/293595.image1.jpg

Young users don't have such problems, but original iOS was easy to use for the older generations too. Steve Jobs cared about the easy discoverability. That is something that started as early as with Apple Lisa: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OW-atKrg0T4 also recently on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20247545

It was a big step back for my parents when iOS removed the buttons present in the older design and replaced them with the plain text.

[raverbashing]

I'm not sure how that looks like in a modern iOS version

I'd say this is a good example of (light) skeumorphism (which is mostly good and non-intrusive), I was mostly talking about stuff like the notes app https://www.dummies.com/consumer-electronics/tablets/ipad/ho...

[acqq]

> I'm not sure how that looks like in a modern iOS version

https://www.authsmtp.com/images/setup/iOS11-smtp-server-setu...

They never know that they are supposed to click on these to proceed. With the button look it was obvious to them.