Think of it as being like a tiled floor - all of the tiles are arranged side-by-side in two dimensions. This means that it will arrange whatever windows you have open so that they are all entirely visible at all times, and together they entirely cover your display. Getting back to the concept that I started above, i3 is a tiling window manager. There's even a little bit of good news in the eye candy department, because now there is a very narrow border highlighting the active window. Ok, that's fine for one window, but what if there is more than one? Well, let's try it by simply pressing Mod-Enter again. That is what i3 is here to do, so - mission accomplished. It doesn't have a border, it doesn't have a title, it doesn't have controls or buttons to minimize/maximize/iconify, it is just a bare-bones window with a terminal emulator running inside. In this case, we currently have only one window so it covers the entire desktop. It just figures out how to cover your desktop with them. It doesn't decorate them, add controls to them, stack them, or do anything else to them. It's task is to fill the entire surface of your display with whatever windows you create. The concept is that i3 is a window manager. There is one very simple concept here, and as soon as you really grasp it, and accept it, the task of learning i3 becomes a lot easier - not to mention a lot more logical and even a bit of fun.
Hang tough, things are gong to get better soon.
The good news at this point is that in my experience, this is a scary as it gets. If your only experience until now has been with traditional GUI desktop managers (KDE, Gnome, Windows, Mac), this is probably looking pretty scary (or maybe pretty useless).
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