Using the walker on the magazine cover is not deliberately ableist.
And at some point people are going to have to learn discernment and how to view creative media within the context it’s presented.
The walker on the cover is to the point of an elderly person no longer being at full faculty.
Ironic how you tried to say the cover isn't ableist yet you proved the point that it is ableist by admitting it represents an elderly person is no longer being at full facility as if needing a mobile aid automatically means they are lesser.