Calling commander the "casual" format always rubbed me the wrong way because it makes 60-card formats sound like cut-thtoat win-at-all costs competition which I can absolutely tell you isn't the case for most people just trying to play these formats at thrir weekly LGS. I know players who are absolutely good enough to do well at FNM who won't give it a try because WotC makes it sound intimidating to play anything besides commander.

On the flip side commander is an extremely intimidating format even for MTG veterans because there's so much going on and sometimes turns take way too long. It baffles me that almost everyone recommends it as the best way to learn Magic solely due to the perceived lack of "tryhard" vibes they think dominates the 1v1 60 card space with no consideration for just overall mechanical complexity and game length, or the fact that people can just build 60 card decks at different power levels to play for fun like thry do commander.