Reminder from a teacher:
"Simple" and "Easy" are relative terms. What's simple and easy to you can be complex and difficult for someone without your background knowledge.
I can do things in 1 minute of HTML editing that it takes a 1st year student a full day to wrap their head around. It took me decades of off and on working in that media to reach that point, and I'm far from an expert.
I refuse to tell a single student that HTML is easy - even the parts that have become easy for me.
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.