If many things go from 1-2 steps to 20+ steps that I also have to read up on, but aren't even documented anywhere which means I also have to be some sort of all knowing mystic (meaning they might as well be not possible to do), then yes, that's very much unintuitive.

Maybe you "forward-thinking generation of software engineers that make elegant, reliable, declarative systems but are totally not entitled shitheads that insult everyone who clearly struggle with such elegancy" should actually listen to the issues that your potential user base is facing instead of dismissing them. Otherwise it will be hard to sell that "future" to them.