Why should it require half an hour to 'read the manual'? That implies that the system is insufficiently intuitive.
No it doesn't.
If anything it implies there's a lot of information that can be filtered in a myriad different ways depending on what you want out of it - like any good toolset.
Anyone who
has bothered to get to grips with the interface has probably saved their "favorites" and can self brief in less time than it took to write this reply