You can learn a lot from instructions written badly. Mostly how to write them better.

Bad instructions are a free lesson in how understanding gets transferred, because every place you got lost marks something the writer assumed and never said. The missing step, the word used two ways, the photograph taken from an angle nobody builds from: you feel each gap directly instead of being told about it. Frustration is doing the teaching there.

Next time a manual or a recipe defeats you, note the exact sentence where you stopped. Then write that step the way it should have been written. Do that a few times and your own explanations to classmates or younger siblings get noticeably clearer.