To be fair, unfortunately as of 2014 considering there are 10^2 main disciplines, with 10^4 main research areas, with 10^6 different things to learn and 10^7 re

To be fair, unfortunately as of 2014 considering there are 10^2 main disciplines, with 10^4 main research areas, with 10^6 different things to learn and 10^7 researchers building stuff to teach, expecting a GUI button to do those myriad of functions in diverse ways would be naive. Maybe, the primary school education tools are close to what you/he describe in simplicity of use.