The point is, using a silly web UI in a browser widget, as you suggested, makes the problem worse. TBH your argument sounds like a designer trying to justify b

The point is, using a silly web UI in a browser widget, as you suggested, makes the problem worse. TBH your argument sounds like a designer trying to justify being a designer. No real users are "confused" by any of the things you've nitpicked about. You're conjuring up some uber-stupid theoretical user as a strawman. But feel free prove me wrong by finding real people on the web complaining that they're confused by those issues.