The number of times the “news” headline display shows me something that catches my interest and then disappears and refreshes to something else before I was able to finish reading it infuriates me.

Your old person trait is that modern UI should follow the same sane UI design guidelines as theybused to in the past. In your example, the UI elements should not move around unexpectedly. :)

I agree with you whole heartedly.

Google does this with their search suggestions

Muscle memory matters! The original MacOS designers believed this. Now, all software seems to have abandoned this idea.