As someone coming from a non-finance background, I often struggle to understand DeFi concepts. Yes, it's not a surprise for me to be challenged by the gigabrain innovations some of these people bring about.
The easiest way to overcome this is to have a piece of paper and start drawing stuff.
I know it sounds silly but you've no idea how you can diagrammatically represent AMM models and even figure out their feasibility.
Try it once and let me know