When it is treated as just a filesystem, then it works about like any other modern filesystem does.
ZFS features like scrubs aren't necessary. Multiple datasets aren't necessary -- using the one created by default is fine. RAIDZ, mirrors, slog, l2arc: None of that is necessary. Snapshots, transparent compression? Nope, those aren't necessary functions for proper use, either.
There's a lot of features that a person may elect to use, but it is no worse than, say, ext4 or FFS2 is when those features are ignored completely.
(It can be tricky to get Linux booting properly with a ZFS root filesystem. But that difficulty is not shared at all with FreeBSD, wherein ZFS is a native built-in.)
Linux takes more skill to manage than Windows or macOS, yet we all know Linux. zfs is _the_ one true filesystem, and the last one you need to know. Besides that, to know zfs is to have a deeper understanding of what a filesystem is and does.
I will admit though, to truly get zfs you need to change how you think about filesystems.
I'm including that. zfs takes more skill to manage properly.