You could say the same for the piano. For most musical instruments, the first months or years of study are spent just trying to get a good sound out of the thin

You could say the same for the piano. For most musical instruments, the first months or years of study are spent just trying to get a good sound out of the thing and to be able to play all of the pitches in its range. Then keyboard instruments came along and suddenly anybody could produce a sound with zero effort at all, just by pressing a key. However it still takes a long amount of time and a lot of practice to fully mesh your brain with the piano so that you can use it as if it was an appendage of your body. DAWs are no different, in fact a DAW is considerably harder to start using than a piano.