First of all im not part of the dev team you should relay your message to them.
Second, I somewhat agree with you. Steemit is definitely harder to in order to understand everything... however when you look at the basics, its actually a blogging platform. And making a blog post isn't harder than any other blogging platform.
In my opinion, if you only look at it as a blogging platform, its quite easy to use if you take a day or two. I am sure your grandmother didn't understand facebook in one day...