...they learned enough to do what they need to do and ignored the rest. Or used the rest rarely enough that the permutations of options and advanced features were not fully understood, or understood on an instinctual level.
If you have to think too much, you weren't trained enough, or properly, or didn't practice enough. Especially when the job is time-sensitive, like steering an 8,000 ton warship!
For example, the article talks about "the big red button".
Each station that could run the helm had a big emergency-stop-like switch that, when you whacked it, turned that station into the one handling the helm. It's sort of an "I've got this" button. But the sailors didn't know that! They thought if they hit it, it put control to a station in the aft of the ship, down past the engine room someplace.
Some things are too customizable!
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