I'm mostly speaking to the device security. I'm no hacker and what I was working on was mostly making sure that people operating as emergency responders are who they say they are when you're disconnected from a centralized network.
This seems like one of those things some people are more sensitive to than others. To my eyes, an LCD or an OLED is just as good as e-ink for reading, except in very bright sunlight.
The mouse driven experience on iPad OS is awful. And switching between apps leads to apps suspending themselves in the background when I don't want them to. And Safari aggressively suspends browser tabs on iPad so you lose any kind of web page state.
>your grandparents probably read for entertainment instead of tiktok
This is a reach... Have you met old people? They vegetate in front of the TV channel surfing- their version of TikTok- never questioning the content or researching topics further on their own. And after 40 years of this activity still don't know how to operate the remote.