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Honestly default GNOME is probably less confusing than this for old people, and even less confusing once you customise it a little.
Seriously, this is good effort! But anything based on XFCE or Plasma is going to look technical and confusing.
Latest plasma is not confusing at all tho, it works really well, in fact I have it setup in my SO's mother and father laptop and they never once managed to break it, and never asked me how to do anything, just figured it out on their own, and they are not great with computers, I will they you that