I sometimes visualize graphs like this (so the x-axis is complexity, basically how complicated the thing you're trying to do is. the y-axis is difficulty, which is how much work it is to accomplish that task in a given piece of software):
So a lot of software makes a certain trade-off, which is making simple tasks easier at the cost of making complex tasks more difficult:
I think Windows 11 is a good example of this: they've hidden a bunch of useful options behind multiple levels of menus, e.g. see the context menu used in Windows Explorer:
I wish more software would behave like this (making simple tasks easy, and complex tasks medium-difficult):
So I'm sure Microsoft and whoever would argue that the vast majority of users only ever want to do the simple tasks, and hiding the other options makes things easier. This may well be true. All I can say is that for me, it's very annoying. I WANT to see the more complex options, and adding multiple layers of menus makes doing medium-complexity tasks more difficult than they used to be.
