100% not true. Concepts and tools are not just hard with no shortcut. They can be hard++ or hard-- (forgive the pun on your C++ reference) depending on how th

100% not true. Concepts and tools are not just hard with no shortcut. They can be hard++ or hard-- (forgive the pun on your C++ reference) depending on how the concepts are delivered and how the tools are designed and implemented. Yes, viz can't become basket weaving. But there is always a spectrum on which things can be made more or less difficult. Didn't some of your professors make subjects seem beautiful, elegant, easy to grok, while some of them seemed to make subjects no more inherently difficult inscrutable?