Intuitive doesn’t mean you were born knowing how it works: it means that everything operates in a consistent and similar way. Once you’ve learnt that Shift - something adds an object to the score, you know that Shift -something else adds something else to score. You know that all the Shift things bring up a popover.
Finale has what it calls ‘metatools’, which are just keypresses to add various objects to the score. You have to learn that Bass Clef is 4 and Alto clef is 2. You have to learn that dynamics are 1 to 9. Tenuto is E. (?)
Many of Dorico’s popover commands don’t require any learning. I can type the actual letters of dynamics. For clefs, I can type existing names, like ‘bass’ or ‘f’, and for the alto clef ‘alto’ or ‘c3’. Most popover use real words, chord names, or obvious mnemonics.
But if that’s too arcane, you can alternatively select them from the side panel.