[floobynewb]

I honestly don't think you can make it much simpler. That is not to say it is simple, just that it is by nature not simple. You can dress the concepts up, make them look nice with a graphical front end, but really the complexity comes from the abstract notions implicit in functions to be performed. You can tailor things by building libraries of functions to perform common tasks, but these abstractions are never going to be sufficient. What is required is a method of translating from the world we are most familiar with, described by our natural language, into the world described by the language of the computer. The translator needs to understand the context of the natural language requirement and find its correct representation in binary. This is the job of the programmer. An automated solution may well be able to pass the Turing test. That being said, I often think about how to leverage machine learning to help bridge the language gap. Evolving an application is an interesting idea, where the requirements are drip fed to the system through the language of the UI the program should present. Translations from some physical representation, cogs, roads, queues, etc might be useful since it is instinctive to many people yet more precise in its descriptive power than spoken language.