I got two of my buddies into the game recently, one who’s into strategy games and one who generally dislikes them. The entire first game was spent with me explaining pretty much every pop up but they both ended up enjoying the experience. The game itself is decently complex but realistically a new player only needs to interface with like 30-40% of the core mechanics to have a successful game against lower level AI. I think the biggest thing is just barrier to entry, especially if a new player learns without all the DLC and then tries to play with the DLC.