Why is Kaspa's design hard to explain simply?

Kaspa's theoretical background is genuinely complicated, which makes balancing simplicity and mathematical correctness a core challenge for anyone documenting it. Most beginner-friendly explanations of blockchains deal with a single chain of blocks — a relatively straightforward idea. Kaspa's protocol operates on a directed acyclic graph (blockDAG) governed by formal consensus math, so stripping out the complexity risks losing the precision that makes the design trustworthy, while keeping all the math intact risks losing the reader entirely. For a beginner, this is a reassurance: if Kaspa explanations feel harder to follow than those for simpler cryptocurrencies, that reflects the genuine novelty of what the protocol is doing.