The standard layout of a keyboard has remained completely unchanged for literal decades. It doesn't update every year with invisible gestures, nor does it remove keys that used to be there in favor of those gestures.
I was trying to make the point that you need to actually find the motivation to spend the time to learn something in order to be able to use it, and not just expect to be able to use it with no time spent learning at all.
Most of those extra gestures you can get away without knowing, can't you? I'm not on iPhone but on Android you could get away with just using the home button and tapping on icons on the screen to do almost anything. Tapping on a touchscreen to activate an icon hasn't changed since the first touch devices in the 90's.
I guess the larger point I was trying to make is that not everything has to be obvious, and in my opinion it is ok to have some learning curve for advanced operation, in the same way that many of us have spent extra time learning to touchtype in order to save time over the long run.
If you dumb the device down completely for the lowest capability user, then it will limit how a person willing to put in that learning time will be able to operate it.
