Yes, I agree with this wholeheartedly. Steem is quite a complicated system in detail, but the core functionality is simple. Post stuff, people can upvote it, and the value of their upvote is dependent on their SP holdings.

Now that's just the beginning, there's curation and delegation, and different Dapps, and curation trails and bidbots, and all this stuff. It can be a lot. If you're interested a little while ago I made a tutorial series to help people learn about all this stuff.