Nope, it's really not for noobs. Basics things you can get via click on other SoHo routers like sane default firewall configuration, NAT loopback or simple VPN setup do not exist here. Setting up a Mikrotik is more akin to setting up a DSL connection on 1992 Linux - it's all "technically" available in the UI, but the UI is just a clickable version of all the CLI complexity and you need to know network terminology to get to capability of a default SoHo router configuration.

Having said that - if you know network setup very well, then Mikrotiks are very powerful and allow for network setups that are much more flexible than consumer equipment.