I'm with you on the box clicking and menu madness HD, where the simplest of input or selection tasks can be reduced to a form filling nightmare, often with almost exactly the same sequence of multiple selections every time.
You'll eventually learn to remember the sequence from the continual practise, but reliance on rote means you may not notice when a slight distraction causes you to deviate. And aren't slight distractions everywhere in the modern open plan workplaces ?
The manufacturers think you're just 'stuck in your ways' when you try telling them, if you are old enough to recognise the difference.
Box ticking fatigue is an insidious and still largely unrecognised hazard of modern systems.