Fair enough, that’s good advice in any situation. The number 1 complaint I hear from everybody I’ve nudged into going to openhab, and who later went home assistant, wasn’t about not abouthow complex it was, but how manual and specific everything is.
In one situation that stood out to me, we were discussing about Shelly devices, and the conversation went like this:
“So in openHAB I add the binding, look for the device, add the thing, then I check the channels, need to create the items, and if I want them in the semantic model I have to add the tags or location to them? “
Me:” yes, sounds about right.”
“In home assistant after adding the addon everything was already there, all of the field names already there of my devices, directly in my dashboard.”
All of the conversations always revolve about how home assistant has pre made dashboards or views or when you setup something the fields are auto populated.
Edit: sorry for the interruption, baby cried. 
As I was saying:
while I don’t really agree on “copying” simply for the sake of the copy, we might stand to benefit from reading those “complaints “ and turning them into improvements. Make the semantic mode semi automatic by auto placing stuff there. If the location is missing, add a pop up that says “oh want this to appear in the semantic model? Don’t forget to add a location!”. We can “unlink and delete” all items in channels, but why can’t I create them all together? And if I can create them all, then ask me “would you like all of the items created? Will they be in the same location?” Yes - “office” boom items in the semantic model, in the office, created.
This is just a rushed example which I think would put new people looking at a dashboard much faster than currently. It just might be what users want.
But of course, any changes or improvements need devs 