I encountered this recently and I thought I should share with all of
you. May be we all have forgotten this.

A friend from HongKong visited me last week. We were watching a movie
at her hotel room the other night. Before the start of the movie, she
was asking if I want to have a cup of tea. Sure, why not? As soon as
she passed me the mug, I noticed something quite different about it. I
sniffed and sipped. OMG, it is pu erh! I looked up at her and looked at
the dinning table, she was just using a normal coffee strainer to make
the tea! I totally forgotten that we can make pu erh with simple tea
pot!

"I didn't know you drink pu erh too!" And so that evening got more
interesting with new topic to talk about....

I think what everybody ought to do is to introduce the "taste" of tea
to your friends first. Let them try different type of tea without all
those complicated tools and steps. Get them interested with tea
drinking before introducing them to tea art. I think this is the least
intrusive way to introduce tea art.