Hahaha yeah it sounds complex but with guitars you can limit that complexity and grow it gradually.
I must say that for me personally who isn't that much into Music, it is a lot of fun with electrical guitars because even a noob like me can create awesome sounding sounds by just plugging the guitar into an amp and/or some pedals and tune them a bit.
You don't even really need to know what you are doing. You can play around.
What you do requires a lot more talent to get nice stuff out of it. I am a tech geek without music talent so it makes some sense to play with these solutions.