lightning was hard for me to get at first too, and then once i got through the learning curve the light dawned and it opened a whole new pathway in my life at the time

there is analogies that could be used to make it eli5 compliant to explain all these things, and i could probably not do a terrible job at getting something of that started but it really is a sore need in this scene for some people to boil it all down and distill what will help people understand

the simple versions are really simple, but programmers tend to get lost in details because that's their job, without that work, we'd be doomed, but it makes for terrible explanations and documentation