If it’s so awful, have you written up UserVoices for feature requests to improve it and your use case for those features? Or for all of the issues that you seem to struggle with have you asked for help on any of the developer communities, or posted a bug report on Github so that it can be looked at and resolved?
I’m not sure where you’re getting your data that most don’t dare to work with it, as it has better documentation than most services open to third party developers, and the size of the community allows for lots of tutorials, guides, and support for people getting started over the years.