I was more talking about people that just start typing www when entering a URL. I see it a lot, perhaps more in older people indeed, but certainly mostly in non-techies. Recently I set up some websites for pensionados with a startup, they found it weird their website didn't start with www and asked me to add it.

Edit: If I ddg for NewYork Times, first hit is "https://www.nytimes.com", and https://nytimes.com redirects to that URL.