This is kind of the criticism of 3e, which is what Pathfinder is a rendition of. If games spent a lot more time teaching people the rules, and I don't mean through pop-ups and encyclopedia entries, the barrier wouldn't be such a pill to swallow.
I'm also not sure if PoE is a simplified game, at least for me it was mostly a struggle figuring out the connection between my input into the game and the output after it went through its byzantine calculations.
