Every single change Tiburon made to make the mode last year - Big Decisions, Play The Moments, Weekly Training, and others - was explicitly designer to make the mode more playable for the average gamer and to reduce the game's steep learning curve. Those usability changes were clearly successful as they were responsible for the 100% usage increase Rex Dickson referred to in his interview earlier this week.
Just because the changes weren't tailored to you personally doesn't mean they didn't happen.