Most likely yes. But the only reason I tried Emacs in the first place was because I knew it could do complicated things. I expected "Tutorial" to be the place to get started with those complicated things. It didn't occur to me that a tutorial would be necessary for such seemingly simple operations.

I did later go on to read tutorials, and I put many hours into customizing my .emacs file, but I always felt like I was fighting the system. Emacs is designed for hardware that's now museum pieces, and those design decisions have pervasive effects that make it impossible to configure Emacs to act like modern software.