>>36486499People grossly exaggerate the interface. The real problem is there is no way to do repetitive shit fast. If you want to make 100 small identical rooms for dorfs to sleep in, you'll spend like an hour mashing buttons to do it. Improving the UI would battery make it faster.
The game needs to let you save premade structures and then rapidly paste many in a row. This way that kind of thing would take 5 seconds instead of an hour and the game woukd be x10000 better.
I know how to play it, and used to enjoy it, but I dread to pick it up because I remember spending DAYS setting up a long vertical pump stack, which should had taken seconds if you could just drop shit fast.