Right, except if the project didn't actually make the actual thing you want to get done Y (for which you were using X) simpler, but made it harder, because the

Right, except if the project didn't actually make the actual thing you want to get done Y (for which you were using X) simpler, but made it harder, because the docs for the new tool are nonexistent/obvious setup for the language/platform/framework produces an error, etc. No one is complaining about projects that say they're simple if they actually are simple and easy to use (i.e. download a binary, run the binary, it doesn't break and does the ~right thing). I think this is more a reaction to when people say "oh it's simple just <huge amount of setup> and you're done!", or even worse when they say "oh it's simple just download and run" and when you do that you're hit with an incomprehensible error/notation talking about deep internals you have to configure.