You make a good point, and this is why people claiming English is so much easier than Latin because it lacks noun cases is a pet peeve of mine — the word order

You make a good point, and this is why people claiming English is so much easier than Latin because it lacks noun cases is a pet peeve of mine — the word order conventions that we use instead of cases to convey information is grammar that has to be learned too! As far as I know there is no one-dimensional metric that would let you say any language is uniformly easier than another.