I've been using Blender for over 5 years. I'm also active on Blender.stackexchange.com and when I help someone there and write instructions, I'm always confused how to navigate to a particular thing using a menu (mostly because some operators' place is ambiguous e.g. "select" vs "mesh" vs "vertex". I think there's a lot of users like me, for efficiency you're just supposed to use shortcuts.

You wouldn't use a menu in notepad to cut/copy/paste, select all etc. right?

It's funny how, when I actually look in the menu, I discover some new things added in recent versions of Blender.