This is little oversimplification but:
1. Download client
2. Generate key
The client handles step 2
For anything else that is "hard" can be also handled by clients
Discussion
No email verification. No passwords. You just start using it.
Plus all the lessons that legacy social media will come to Nostr. This isn't a total restart from scratch.
Sure until they have a relay issues, or have no backup properly set up, but I’m new to this platform so still learning about its pros and cons, I like it so far