The UI has improved.
It’s still way behind where it should be. The new MS Office style Ribbon knockoff UI is great, except during the times when features you want tend to disappear or move around. Also, the UI as a whole is nowhere near as continuous or well applied as it could be. I applaud them for improving it, but there is still a lot of strange behavior that comes with disjointed packages and UI.
Even if it is improved, it’s not a tool I would ever say to someone “yeah just dive in, you could easily pick it up in a few days with some web tutorials”. It’d be like asking someone who had built a paper airplane once to fly a 747 “because they knew about planes”.