I don't think you are the only one with this experience either.
I would, in fact, be very curious to see stats on the percent of users that are coming into Steemit off of mobile devices and retention/churn rates from those users. People that are successful around here stick with it and just figure it all out. I think we can make the onboarding process so much better.
With the introduction of an official mobile App, things should start looking WAAAAY better.