How to understand the meaning of this as...as sentence seems to be self-contradictory?

This time I encountered a seemingly self-contradictory sentence from a book:

It’s easy to see that locate is as simple as find is complicated.

Apparently, simple and complicated are two words with totally opposite meanings. However, as…as sentence used here may imply they are … the same? I’m confused about the usage of as…as sentence here and how to understand the true meaning. Could someone help?