Sean Devlin has talked a bunch of people through actually writing these attacks in cryptopals set 8. We talked English professors through the "number-theoretic" attacks on RSA in cryptopals set 6. It's fine if you don't want to dip into this stuff, but I'm not OK with the pretense that this intuition is somehow unattainable.
We need more people playing with these attacks, and fewer people trying to assemble new cryptosystems out of libraries they understand only from the documentation on the web page.