Are keyboards simpler to use than acoustic pianos?
Acoustic pianos and keyboards are basically the same technique of playing the piano. So I wouldn't say one is easier to play than the other. Playing a keyboard, usually, if you are using a keyboard to it's capacity, you're playing different instruments other than the piano. In addition to the piano sometimes, so you have to make a saxophone sound like a saxophone ,which means a different approach to playing the keys. So playing a piano is actually, technically for a pianist, easier than a keyboard, because it's set up perfect the first time. You don't have to deal with stands, wandering pedals that aren't attached to the base of the keyboard, or speaker systems that aren't set up properly. Whereas with an acoustic piano, you just sit down and play. But the technique of playing both are the same.