I just wrote about this two days ago.
As a new Steemian, I read the entire whitepaper and still had endless questions about fairly basic functions. Most of the useful information I cobbled together from reading various posts, but that's not a very reliable way to introduce users to a platform.
I welcome simplification.
(for reference: https://steemit.com/steemit/@jumpy/steemit-s-complexity-problem)
Personally I don't see the system as being overly-complicated, it sort of just works for me. I guess simplification is more a matter of getting rid of redundancies? Maybe that's where your questions are coming from..
Its less about redundancies and more about having a pretty poor onboarding system. The welcome page was very vague about getting paid to post and curate. I had multiple types of currency and the source and use of each one was not clear until I did a fair amount of research.
I'm a couple days in and starting to understand it, but I think there are probably a lot more people that give up early than need to.
Oh perhaps you wanna check this out then if you haven't:
https://steemit.com/steemit/@steemitblog/steemit-2017-roadmap
Edit: Yup, I can see where your concerns are, I think like any good game, there needs to be a hand-holding tutorial, at least for awhile.
Yep, this is the first I've seen/heard of this document. That kind of underscores my primary concern, which is that only the dedicated searchers are able to undercover the technical background.
I'll check out your post, but unfortunately nowadays the whitepaper is almost totally useless. So many things have changed that it doesn't really offer an accurate view of how things work any more.