I never claimed it was complex. Your reply only serves to illustrate my point. They CAN make it easy. They choose to only do so as long as it's an Apple device. More proprietary territory marking. That makes me like it even less.
And no, it's not just 3 taps of the screen...even though it's becoming clear you didn't pop into this thread to offer any solution to the problem. Swipe down from the top right corner, long press in a smaller area where if you hit one of the buttons, it will activate those so you have to make sure you long press in just the right spot, and then a simple button press. And then repeat to turn it off. As I said, having to do this multiple times a day is very inconvenient when it doesn't have to be. Apple is just not going to make it easy for their device to work with non-Apple devices. This is not a selling feature.
If you applied your thoughts process to Apple, we'd be on the same page. "Well, with subjective measurement in mind, including a button to turn on hotspot is hardly complex."