Why is The Tempest hard to Understand?

The Tempest is one of Shakespeare’s later works in his career. Therefore, since this work was probably created  at the peak of Shakespeare’s career or afterwards, our friend Shakespeare had to switch up his style. This explains why The Tempest is a harder piece to comprehend, language-wise. Compared to Henry V and Titus, the plot structure is also different. Again, we are given characters that, some are of royalty, such as Alonso, The King of Naples, and some are not, such as Claribel, Prospero’s servant. In Henry V there is King Henry and Pistol. In Titus, there is Saturninus and Aaron the Moor. However, I’m curious as to why Shakespeare chose such an abrupt, curt even, opening to this story. The play starts with violent storm and the characters’ reaction to it. As we’ve seen with Titus, the exposition of Shakespeare’s plays typically consist of a drawn out introduction of the main characters and their traits, their personal struggles, and its relation to the main conflict in the story. We learn later on that Prospero actually causes the storm to attack the ship. We don’t know this until reading further on. Is The Tempest a harder piece to analyze because of the sequence of events in the plot? Did Shakespeare intend on making the Tempest a little more confusing? If so, why? I would imagine Shakespeare might have come to the point in his career where he neededra boost of originality or perhaps even Shakespeare was confused or frustrated when developing this story. I would like to know what the class thinks of reasons for The Tempest being the most difficult play covered in class so far to decipher.