While I'd agree with your points, I'd agree with them for me (and presumably for you). I have a feeling we and HN in general are outliers in terms of "looking

While I'd agree with your points, I'd agree with them for me (and presumably for you). I have a feeling we and HN in general are outliers in terms of "looking at a UI, mentally decomposing its elements, applying common UI knowledge to them, experimenting until we get the action we want, and doing all the above in our first 10s with a new UI." As support, I would offer that despite the comments you've outlined above, normal people typically feel more comfortable performing an unfamiliar task via speech than GUI.