I'd count having to learn how to use a more technologically complex option as being more time-intensive, personally. Anyone can learn to use a more complicated option, but they need the time and mental resources to learn how to do it. And yeah, as you say, a lot of things are legitimately technical skills, and even reasonably tech-savvy individuals can end up out of their depth in some of the more complicated spaces in the internet. Recently I've been switching some things I use over to open source alternatives, and the number of options that look like they're better than the convenient proprietary ones but which come with no or utterly arcane instructions for how to use them (or even just install them) is very high. I'm pretty sure I could figure it out for myself if I had enough time, because I'm very much in the "poke buttons to see what happens" camp when it comes to tech. But I genuinely just don't have the time, and in the absence of more user-friendly good options, the bad options that have a shallower learning curve are more accessible.