Well, to be honest, the complexity level varies quite a lot between recipes.
At the extremely easy end of the scale, there's a lamb biryani - the only prep needed for that is chopping an onion, it's all cooked in one pan and it's on the table in 15 minutes (quick-cook rice is one of the shortcuts they use regularly). On the other hand, I did a curried mince and crispy potato 'pie' recipe the other night that involved cooking some mince in one pan with various spices etc, parboiling some potatoes in another pan, then transferring them both to another dish to finish in the oven. And another recipe involved finely slicing some carrots and radishes to make a pickled vegetable salad, which was a lot more time consuming than the recipe card suggested.
Tonight's dinner was a Thai green vegetable curry. Prep was chopping some veg (aubergine, broccoli, sugar snaps), chopping some ginger and chilli, and making a stock with coconut, lime juice and a stock cube - I suppose I could have just chucked the ingredients for the stock straight into the pan rather than mixing it up separately. The green curry paste was prepared for you. It took almost exactly half an hour from getting out the ingredients to serving it up.
Personally, I don't mind spending half an hour or so in the kitchen, but that's because I enjoy cooking. I also think it's worth a bit of effort because the results are generally better than microwave ready meals. YMMV.