This hits the nail squarely on the head
This is the way to use and visualize your AXE-FX always. So many see it as a box with secret codes and thousands of things to know and learn. Always try to "Imagine this in real life" try to visualize what you would do with real equipment. Only look at one block at a time, the way you would if you were hands on. It is just a series of simple blocks. Don't worry about the deeper setting. Only look at what you are familiar with. Treat it like real world components one at a time and you will see it in a new, simpler light.
I think that is good advice, but at the same time, I think its good to think outside the box, so to speak lol, with what you can do "in the box".
A lot of times I see people trying to set up FX in the order of their hardware pedals, and then always using that for each patch. In hardware, generally that is what you need to do, but in the Axe, you can totally change stuff around, putting a reverb before the amp in one patch, after in another.
There is so much you can do, on a patch by patch basis, that would be difficult in hardware, either due to cost, routing issues etc. I often didn't run stereo effects with hardware simply because I didn't have a second amp/cab to hook up to my delay or chorus pedals most of my life lol
Likewise, just because a hardware pedal might not offer such control, don't feel you can't assign modifiers and CC's to whatever you'd like in the Axe. I love adding envelope control to my FX, blending FX with an expression pedal etc.
Generally if you can imagine it, you can do it in the Axe, which is part of what makes the box so fun and inspiring