Is it not expected for people (or generations) to learn new things (and not learn obsolete things)?
My kids learned how to navigate Apple TV and the Apple TV remote at age 3 to go to Infuse or PBS kids app. And I tell them to turn off the TV after x episode of y time limit, and they know how to do that.
I think this ignores that marketing is essentially insidious. The goal is to get you to do more of x. We spend a lot of life building up the mental tools and energy and math skills to understand whether we actually want to do x or whether someone has simply suggested it very strongly.
Asking a 3 year old to develop that mental faculty just because we are a new generation learning new things feels incorrect.
I beg to differ. I prefer being able to search and select and instantly watch whatever I (or the kids) want (due to high reliability of broadband internet), over transporting physical media back and forth from a store or library and putting it into a dedicated machine for it.
I specifically recall how annoying it was to change the input on a TV because for some reason, manufacturers didn’t put that button on TVs or all remotes.
If my 3 year olds can learn to navigate tvOS to the right app or infuse library and pick the Bluey episode they want, I feel like it’s a pretty good sign of things not being shitty.
My kids learned how to navigate Apple TV and the Apple TV remote at age 3 to go to Infuse or PBS kids app. And I tell them to turn off the TV after x episode of y time limit, and they know how to do that.