Exactly. The real user friendly editor would always show you the "top" commands that can be accepted.

But some !@$ in some distros or programs set the defaults of nano to not show the "help lines." So I know it's Nano, but as I don't use it all the time I don't remember how to do anything but typing the text.

Not a good configuration.

And still, at least after the Esc was pressed it should show the help lines, and not pretend nothing's happened! That's a missing feature! Even decades ago the user friendly text based editors had that.

And the help is still talking about the "Meta" key -- when have you the last time seen the physical keyboard with the key labelled as "Meta"?

Same thing here ^^ It's annoying to reflex type `:q` and see it on the screen and nothing happen! One good thing with nano being beginner friendly is that it reminds you at all time how to quit on the bottom left of the screen so the annoyance doesn't last long.

"Ctrl+x", "y" or "n" if you need to save, then "Enter"