Yes, it is all a lot to take in and understand for many people.

There are many communities out there trying to help in making it all easier to understand.

One of the issues in the past was that we Steemians didn't have a place to go to and see what us Witnesses were posting about (relevant to witness topics).

So I made:

https://steemit.com/@witnesspage

It is all automated and all the posts made by Steem Witnesses using the relevant tags #witness, #witness-category or #witness-update are resteemed there.

Afterwards I went ahead and slapped together a simple website:

http://www.witnesspage.com/

again, just to try and help in that field.

As with most people, it just takes time to soak it all in and get up to speed with everything.