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The millennials are in the absolute worst position tech literacy wise. They had the boomers on one end and the zoomers on the other.
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.
It's like how the generations before us knew how to fix cars better than more millennials. They learned because they had to, because their cars needed more maintenance than modern cars. Meanwhile, millennials had computers that needed more maintenance than modern computers, so that's what we learned.