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certainly the behavior of an old person
in my experience with older people, they don't know how to get their computers to stop updating automatically. so i would say instead that downgrading software is not the behavior of an old person.
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This is certainly the behavior of an old person.
The question really is: are eschewing new features because they are new and it makes you uncomfortable to adjust to them, or are they objectively a downgrade?
tbh, it sounds like you're getting old. I do sympathize though. As phones get better and better, they have a kind of gravity that makes it hard to stay attentive in normal life.