The average user probably wouldn't ever need to even use the cli. You'd just point other tools (e.g. mempool.space) to your daemon instance and those provide the easy access to your node's data.

The only other important, slightly harder task is to set up an Electrum indexing server (electrs, Fulcrum, electrum-personal-server, etc) for tools like Sparrow to talk to.

It's not really hard, but overall it is a pretty big step change for someone that isn't already pretty proficient in the linux / dev ops world.