It has a sensible layer of complexity for what you get out of it.
Your German rant is still stupid, no one would do that manually or would otherwise just take the time and effort to learn what is necessary.
Unfortunately for this discussion I have no clue how the UK version really compares to the German one and I also don't know from a statistical point of view if this is a real problem.
After all just creating some company implies a lot of things you need to know anyway like doing the taxes right and doing all other critical things like the yearly get together with all participants.