Is it just me? Look, it's not rocket science but it's not Janet and John either!

Question

Janet and John being the main characters in a very old reading scheme for children in the UK. Look, John sees Janet. Janet sees the dog. Like that.
Anyway. I used to get a bit fed up with Adobe's marketing of Golive that implied you could just plonk stuff on a web page, using a grid, and all would be well, easy-peasy, knock up a web site in half an hour. Miserable people would pour in, unable to do what they wanted because they 'didn't do code' or ' 'not a programmer' or 'haven't got time to poke around in source code' or 'why won't anyone answer a simple question'.
Or they'd create a layout in Photoshop, thinking they could just slice it up and call it a web page - then, oh my goodness, how do I edit my text? Why can't the search engines see my site?
The problem was, they thought it should be dead simple to arrange stuff on a page however they wanted. They didn't have time/inclination to learn how web design worked.
Now it's templates. Nothing wrong with a very basic, simple template to show people the first principles. But now people are buying or acquiring all kinds of templates, optimistically believing they don't have to do code, don't have to learn anything, just pay the money then create havoc shuffling stuff about and hoping for the best.
It's not rocket science. But it's not dead simple either. There are no shortcuts.
People have to learn about html and css, as a minimum, to have any success. Yes, life's a bitch and then you die but effort must be expended. Sorry about that.
Rant over

Answer 1

I think the problem arises from modern culture.  Not that it's necessarily anything new, but we definitely live in a "I want it now" culture.  A culture where even a microwave oven or waiting for a few seconds for a web page to load can test one's patience to the point of anger.
For me, as a child, a microwave oven would have only been an exhibit at the World's Fair.  And when you wanted waffles you had to go the route of mixing the batter from scratch and cooking them up in the waffle iron.  There weren't any "just add water" or "pop 'em in the toaster" options.  You can probably guess which were better though.
What sells today is almost always driven by the promise that you can have it now.  You too can be a homeowner, here's a loan... that's worked out well, hasn't it?  Adobe is no different than any other company that sells to the general public... Sham-Wow!  It's not the companies that have to clean up their acts.  The fine print covers all the wrongness that bubbles up.  It's a game and it's the consumers that have to do the work to play their part smartly if they want to win... at'sa life.
I was lucky enough to have taken courses in html and javascript where all the coding was done by hand in Notepad, and also lucky enough to become quickly addicted to it all--wanting to learn and create whatever I could.  When I moved on to using WYSIWYG tools, I found myself always cleaning up the mess they made by going back to the manual editing mode, and I still do that today.  With a single unanswered exception, I never posted questions to any forums looking for help.  That's not to say I didn't use them... I learned early on how to find answers to problems without asking... Help documentation and search engines.
It's sad, but as we who help in these forums see every day, many of the people that get involved with designing things with software have little desire to actually learn how.  And they don't want to pay someone to do it for them... they want the result, now, for free, not lessons or skills.  And the forums become a crutch for these people... you see them back again and again. One person recently started a new posting for every little section of code after being told no one was likely to revise the massive chunk they posted on their first attempt. It went on for about a week until they finally had all they needed done for them and haven't been back since.
Luckily, for our own sanity's sake, we have choices when it comes to helping people.  Those of us who value the lessons and the skills have the option to hand out the gimmee they want, to make them suffer some learning, or to just leave that 0 sitting there under Replies.  It's so much easier to be patient and make the extra effort to help someone when they show a real interest in learning about the tools they are trying to use.