Googling and peer support is much more acceptable for advanced actions than simple actions.
If I need to Google how to disable labels in the dock, that's probably ok. If I need to Google how to turn down the brightness of the iPad...that's not great.
An interface can only ever have a finite number of discoverable actions. So choose what actions are core functionality, and make those discoverable. Hide what's left.
How would I see all the options available for an app? We're back to googling and peer support.
> For some reason, Apple has now decided that their simple platform needs to be as capable as the more advanced platform.
Because they were getting crap for it.