They can deal with it more efficiently because its model is closer to their current mental model, and so requires less cognitive load to achieve initial results.
Gabriel talks about this under the label "worse is better". [1] I agree your preferred approach is better in the long term and at scale. But that only matters in the long term, and only if scale is eventually achieved. Tool adoption is generally a series of short-term decisions, and most projects start small.
I agree mentoring people is great, but neither you nor I have time to mentor all the people just configuring things into becoming good programmers.