I've found the older article 'PC Gaming Is Still Way Too Hard' to be quite amusing, but not very similar to my experience (although I only built two PC's). In

I've found the older article 'PC Gaming Is Still Way Too Hard' to be quite amusing, but not very similar to my experience (although I only built two PC's). In my experience, the process of checking compatibility of the parts, and getting the parts can be a bit tedious (I had to wait multiple months for some parts). I did order DDR3 memory for a mobo that only supports DDR4 and bought a powersupply that was way too big for the small form factor case I was using (luckily I could return it). I found the actual build to be, by far, the easiest part of the process. Everything was basically plug and play (in the sense that the colors, annotations and connectors made everything very obvious to me). I also never experienced a crunch when I mounted the CPU. To be fair I didn't really use the manuals. If I would have broken something I would have a very different story.