The entire industry is obsessed with onboarding and first-experience ease and intuitive interfaces and making things "just work", etc, etc. This includes Linux, which still has rough edges but the approach of just making things simple instead of easy and aiming at advanced users is very rare these days.
Not necessarily. The traditional windows model worked because everything has a keyboard shortcut. If you're doing some mildly repetitive task it's a simple step to learn the short cuts.
Increasingly though software is becoming 'easier' to use by removing things like shortcuts etc. Moving a mouse in the same way 100 times increases the mental burden over using whatever shortcut.
The entire industry is obsessed with onboarding and first-experience ease and intuitive interfaces and making things "just work", etc, etc. This includes Linux, which still has rough edges but the approach of just making things simple instead of easy and aiming at advanced users is very rare these days.