I think you are correct with your assumption.
I have not owned an RC toy that I have not crashed yet. Been doing it for about 20 years or so, covering all aspects of it - air, land, and sea (lake) models. I've enjoyed repairing them as well, learned a lot about them by fixing them.
A drone like the mavic takes very little skill to fly since everything is stabilized you have map and GPS for location and orientation is not a concern since it flies the same way forward or backward or even sideways.
In worst-case scenario you let go of the sticks and it will stable hover, you look at the arrow/orientation on the display, look at the map where it is, correct orientation and fly it back.
You all been spoiled with gyros and GPS this drone has.