I understand you, but also your mother, I know that having a thousand applications that you do not use on your home screen does not make sense, but you have to understand that your mother is not of your generation and what for you can be order to her can confuse her, as for the large print I am sorry to tell you with the years and the problems of view many of us reach that extreme I have quite large fonts in my messaging applications, as for the sun type brightness, that if I hate it is horrible I feel like I melt when I take someone's cell phone and has the brightness to 100.
As for the algorithm, it's not your idea, it happens to me too, it's quite suspicious.
RE: A disorganized home page is my first digital pet peeve