When a student asks me how to do [thing], I usually start with "Oh, that's very hard" before showing how to do [thing].
If they understand immediately when I point out what they overlooked, they laugh at my "joke."
But if it was really simple, they wouldn't have asked for help. It would have been intuitive.
So I wasn't really joking, and the ones who need to know that understand I wasn't joking.
This thread may or may not be brought to you by my attempt to find good photography tutorials that don't insist you already have months of experience with a DSLR and all additional accessories.
I get that the article writers live and breathe this stuff, but I really wish people saw a market for "So you want to get into photography but can't afford a $400 camera" photography tutorials so I would have more outside content to share with my students.