I see what you're saying, but this is actually a deliberate usability principle: make the basic features easy to access (visible without clicking into a menu),

I see what you're saying, but this is actually a deliberate usability principle: make the basic features easy to access (visible without clicking into a menu), and put advanced features inside menus. Then basic users who don't need more advanced features can do what they need without getting lost in a super complex UI, and power users can still get to the advanced stuff. If people want to do advanced stuff with software, they really do need to invest the time to learn where the advanced features of the software are. I think this is reasonable.