As I'm in my seventies too I have to say that I've not found it difficult to install and test Windows 11 on three computers. In fact provided you stick with the Professional version its quite easy to prune out all the dross that you don't like and end up with a system which is simpler and...
I have this problem on an Asrock Deskmini 310 running pre-release build 22458. I also have a similar problem with a built in card reader on a Samsung Book 12. A Gigabyte Brix N4000 is the only Windows 11 one that can mount these devices correctly.