i dont know if this helps but i have been studying modes and scales throgh a book called the guitar grimorie exercise book. in the book the first scale you learn is f major starting at the 1st fret on the low e. then rather than listing the modes by name he has you memorize the patters of each and for f major the mode patterns go from 1-7 but for other scales the order of the patterns are different. so once you know the petterns and the oder in which they appear for each scale the complexity seems to go down quite a bit.
heres the first two patterns as i know them for f major (i know they are sweeping patterns and not the true scale patterns)

pattern 1
||---------------------------------3-5-6-----------|
||--------------------------3-5-6------------------|
||-------------------2-3-5-------------------------|
||-------------2-3-5-------------------------------|
||-------1-3-5-------------------------------------|
||-1-3-5-------------------------------------------|

pattern2
||---------------------------------5-6-8-----------|
||--------------------------5-6-8------------------|
||-------------------3-5-7-------------------------|
||-------------3-5-7-------------------------------|
||-------3-5-7-------------------------------------|
||-3-5-6-------------------------------------------|