There's still no way around having to learn complex features. For most software, building a really simple first try is very easy, but almost certainly useless.

Once you need to actually do something useful, uunavoidable complexity sets in and all of a sudden defaults and such don't really help anymore.

Some people try to push defaults further with templates and wizards, but that often still doesn't really work for your particular use case, and also makes you first search through many options before realizing you actually need to go for the scary blank one.