The original Mario Kart isn’t the easiest game in the series, especially if you weren’t raised on its Mode 7-induced peculiarities, but that’s a relative thing. It’s fine, it’s still easy to look at, it’s easy to play, that’s why they’re still selling trillions of copies of Mario Kart games to this day.
Source: Kotaku – True Horror Is Mario Kart x Resident Evil’s Camera Angles