Somewhat bullshit advice in my mind. Because I have my feet in both camps, the old style film 35mm single lens reflex camera's, and now the more modern digital single reflex camera's.
The complaints then and now are basically the same, too complex for the average person to understand, give me a point and shoot instead. But still, if you had a bit of geek in you, the single lens concept was ever so more versatile, the delimiter was how deep your pockets were.
Well, now in this digital age, some but not all of us are more geeki, but the thesis of my post is that digital camera's have a far far far more steeper learning curve. Simply because digital camera designers have shifted simple easy to understand and quick to change mechanical controls to computer menu driven controls that are slow and hard to change. Thereby losing the versatility, ease of use, and spontaneity that attracted users to the 35 MM film format vs the larger format film cameras that could give better resolution but were only useful if the shot could be composed at user leisure.