Yeah, fair, I often make the same point about snowboarding vs skiing. Skiing is "easy" to pick up but difficult to master. Most people on the hill are just backseating it down in bad form, like they learned in their first week. Getting good form is ... a lifelong effort.

Snowboarding is brutally hard to pick up at first, unless you hate your tailbone. I have never really tried, I'm too old for that kind of pain.

But I'm a telemark skier, so the worst of both worlds :-) Maybe telemark is like advanced C++. But probably more like Haskell.