Isn’t census data used to determine availability and funding for social programs?

So the options are “disclosed personal information the government has no business knowing.” or “cause services important to your [group] to be underfunded/cut”.

Lose/lose.

My niece struggled with using a mouse when she was in middle school – her experience with UI was exclusively touch screens prior to that.

The verge had an interesting article on this phenomenon

I’ll add “it’s not their fault”. In the race to make technology intuitive and idiot proof we’ve removed the need to actually learn how technology works past a superficial level.