Coffee can be complicated. If you don't know your portafilter from your pour-over it's easy to feel overwhelmed and out of depth, but that's not what coffee's about. In fact, a lot of coffee experts are working hard at uncomplicating coffee, stripping it back to relaxed brewing.
When people get into coffee for the first time, they tend to go all-in. It's a fun hobby, which snowballs into obsessive measuring and monitoring until brewing a cup of coffee becomes more like an over-optimized lab experiment.
