The blue stuff is all verbs.

"Review..."

"Check..."

"Protect..."

The green words are categories. Point at them, mouse pointer turns into the clicky finger, you now know you can click it.

Icons behave like icons - they don't get the clicky finger, so you double- or right-click them, like always.

No, this is not confusing or difficult.

Neilsen is often technically correct (the best kind of correct!), but not many people pay much attention to him these days.

Whilst it's true that everyone else could be wrong and you could be right - personally, when I find myself in that situation, I tend to challenge the everloving shit out of my own position, because being wrong is something I'm good at.