And yet you do have the time to write a long post about "details" you don't know about...

can't put time into educating myself

I don't know anyone who knew this was the case about communities. I run my own community and am an Admin in another one. I guarntee if I ask the other admins about this they also won't know it.

So, the question should be, why is Hive and everything about it so convoluted to the point of where even people who are programmers and have a degree in Information Systems(me) don't know about it?

You're approaching this as if it's someone's fault for not reading every single Hive documentation and that they are stupid and ignorant if they don't. You realize how much time that would take to do that, let alone understand it all and remember it 100%? People need to read things multiple times even to retain 30% of it for a medium amount of time.

Maybe we should just all read every thing in Hive documentation every few months in the off chance we have to do a total memory recall on some obscure thing because someone might be sarcastic to us that we don't know it.

I bet I know a bunch of stuff about Hive you don't know, but I won't be sarcastic about it. It's totally an impractical way of thinking to assume that people on Hive, or any platform, know how it works. Nobody has time to get more than a extremely limited basic understanding of even how Facebook/Twitter works, let alone Hive a decentralized blockchain run by witnesses with staked power and many obscure and technically complex features.

You are here for 5 years, right?
That says a lot about your commitment.

This some kind of cult where I am expected to know everything now eh? I guess if I don't know something I can expect more sarcasm and unhelpfulness from certain people here, but then again, that says a lot about your "commitment" that you would clearly violate all tenens of Customer Service to "dunk" on someone with a sarcastic reply. That will really make people want to join Hive and not drive them away.