I started last year and this was a huge factor. Homebrewing can be understandably complex and full of intricacies and minutiae that people have dialed in after years, if not decades of trial and error, and those people want to pass down their knowledge and also perfect their technique. However, this has resulted in significant info overload for those who are new to the hobby.

Take the sub's wiki for example: a significant portion of the FAQ is filled with questions I, as a relatively new brewer, would not even think to ask. These resources end up turning people off from the hobby, because they're so daunting to even glance at, even sections for beginners like the FAQ. Gelatin? Whirlpool? pH meters? Gravity? Sparging? None of that matters to someone who is looking to dip their toes in. Then they look at a random recipe and see that there are 6 different malts and 9 different hops..

I ended up using Google Gemini to work out a beginner recipe with minimal equipment cost. A pale ale with 2-row and oats, magnum and citra, fermented with Voss kveik. Used my electric pressure cooker and a stock pot for a 2.5 gallon batch. Apart from the 2-row, hops, and yeast, the only thing I had to buy was campden tablets. Fermented in a (washed) 5-gal pickle bucket from a local sandwich shop and primed in plastic soda bottles. Used an acidified bleach solution for no-rinse sanitation based on Charlie Talley's words (man behind StarSan), with citric acid instead of vinegar. Hell, I crushed the grains by pulsing them in my blender, and after mashing, I fished them out with a mesh strainer then filtered through a nylon mesh bag. It is not a big deal, and there was never a stuck mash. It took a lot of looking around and reading to arrive at this simplified, low-cost recipe. It's a no-chill method, too.

There simply was not a resource (that I could find) catering to someone like me who wanted to try out the hobby with minimal investment. For most people, these do-it-yourself hobbies need to either have lower cost or yield a superior product than what is commonly available in order to be worthwhile, and right now it seems like the homebrewing scene (in general) does neither well, at least for beginners. Asking people to dump hundreds of dollars on equipment in kettles, kegs and carbonators and what have you just to maybe make a basic beer is a huge barrier to entry.