@Ted Clayton -
I strongly disagree with several of your points. I make my living helping clients who get in over their heads with WP. Sure, if users install a vanilla version of WP, with one of the default themes, and avoids using any plugins that expand the functionality of WP, they probably don't need any hand holding, or help. Most people adopting WP, in my experience, don't fall into that category. Plugins conflict. Newbies don't know to check versions, or research when the plugin they want was last updated, or even understand how plugins work. The WP repository is 90% outdated, unsupported, poorly tested plugins.

I think that's the issue with advertising WP as being easy enough for anyone's tech-illiterate great-grandmother to start a state-of-the-art website. That's only true if said grandmother never wants to do anything but write a simple blog.

Personally, I don't teach any of my clients to be helpless. I take the time to explain the things they should have already known, so they don't have to continue to pay someone else.

My clients come to me because they're afraid to ask for help from the WP community.