OP title is:
Do you think electronics are getting way too complicated to use?
title should be:
Do you think electronics for impatient, lazy, and or reading unskilled consumers is getting too complicated to use?
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Indeed yes, many consumers have not got the reading comprehension skills to follow user manual instructions and many others are too lazy to even bother even if they can. This is nothing new and began decades ago with the first media news about it when many consumers refused to bother reading simple VCR instructions.
But some equipment and consumer electronic products are already too complex to easily set up and understand if just using manufacturer documentation. My Sony a6700 camera is a prime example. Thus instead of having engineers create thorough documentation, they instead let third parties create how to books with various YouTube websites providing visual instructions, and user communities answering technical questions.
There have always been people capable and willing to read more involved instructions and those are people that were successful in a lot of technical jobs during my working decades. Some people have difficulty reading the simplest written instructions and only learn by being visually shown what to do and then repeatedly physically performing whatever.
Such is usually not because of some innate learning disability but rather because they never developed that skill during school years that reflects a poor facet of how children are being taught in schools and how many are just pushed through grades regardless of accomplishments. And when they get into college, many immediately fail unless they manage to work within a groups of like others completing daily assignments. Foreign Asian students and H1B workers that don't speak English well, are often very good at helping their peers succeed so.
Likewise if non-readers get a job that requires independently reading information, they are stuck and don't last long unless someone bothers to train them. In many technical jobs, management simply won't put such people in higher paying jobs. Reading and comprehension skills are key reasons I was so successful in Silicon Valley.
Another issue is many highly intelligent technically trained people are rather poor at explaining technical things to others, much less creating clear understandable written instructions for others. That was why I was often tasked with proof reading technical documents of engineers and writing testing instructions and documents for lower level technicians. Thus even when some try to read instructions, especially now for foreign manufactured products by smaller companies, user documentation is flawed. Thus the rise of Internet sites with user groups that correct those instructions.
Over decades I also often wore a hat of interviewing others for technical electronic hardware testing jobs that required minimal 2 year bachelor of science degrees. Many such applicants has abysmal skills, not even being able to apply simple ohm's and voltage laws. Not because they were never schooled in such subjects but rather had not retained information over months of classes without apparently being adequately tested at course ends where schools for business reasons are more concerned with just getting their students a piece of paper.
