“just add this to the config folder” - which folder? Where?

This is one of the biggest problems with Microsoft documentation (and maybe other ecosystems too). Doesn't include any "using" statements in the snippet, leading to copying the code not working, because you don't know what DLL this is using. They talk about 2 lines, and show you 2 lines, but the 2 lines don't work without 1 or 2 other lines which they have left out. Happens every single time

not correctly steering the user towards the relevant documentation about configuration values

Microsoft documentation never links to anything else at all. If you don't know how to do this thing they're talking about, well now you have to go find a Youtube by some Indian programmer about it

there’s a bit of a disconnect because a lot of tutorials exist that base level of knowledge that a complete beginner doesn’t have

Yep. The man pages are so not user-friendly. I have always said that Unix is very powerful, but not the least bit user-friendly. Welcome to low adoption.