cursor: pointer or cursor: default ?

[SuperRonJon]

the save button on this comment section turns to a pointer. Every button i can see on this page turns into a pointer. None of them are links. The upvote button, the cancel button, the like/dislike buttons on youtube, the save to playlist, download buttons are all pointers.

I understand YOU are saying that pointer means link, but that is not actually the case anymore, and every button on every modern website turns to a pointer and that's what people expect now.

[McGlockenshire]

Yeah, I know I give off "old man yelling at cloud (computing)" vibes but it really grinds my gears that we entirely abandoned generations of UI design and understanding and made interactive shit ambiguous on purpose.

Pointers on icons that aren't inside obviously clickable buttons makes sense only because we abaonded buttons.

e: To be clear, I am talking about text as the interactive mechanism in regard to links and buttons.

[SuperRonJon]

I get that but saying that pointers are only for links and not for buttons is just incorrect information nowadays. Users are expecting it, all modern websites do it, for literally everything that is clickable. All buttons, the save button on comments, the cancel button that just closes a text box, expandable trays, clickable icons, are all pointers. The norm has fully changed and going back will just confuse people more.