Nah, that's just the Yaesu UI

From a new review of the Yaesu FT-817 over at eHam.net: "CPU seems possessed"
(link; you may have to scroll or even search down a few reviews)

Like this post's title says, no, that's normal for these little radios.  Keep trying, you'll get the hang of it.  If you need to take a break, take a break, perhaps with some holy water on the side.

Lots of people keep saying it: The first ham radio company to come out with a sane interface will own the market.  Personally, I'm beginning to believe that these companies are run by communists, because they seem to hate money so much.

Oh, and then there are the reviewer's comments about battery life being less than three hours.  Simultaneously spot-on, known, and irrelevant.  Yaesu continues to release perfectly good radios with 20 year old battery tech, so you'll have to supply your own.  They'd be better off stuffing a speech processor into that dinky battery bay.

For all that, once you get the hang of operating one of these little jewels, they're not bad at all.  I do believe though that fully a third of new hams are driven out of the hobby in the first year by poor user interface design though.

ps: If you want more of my thoughts on this radio, just use the search bar.  You'll find lots here.