I personally don't think the conversation is "easy vs hard" Often you make things "easy" by restricting decisions that need to be made by creating an opinionat

I personally don't think the conversation is "easy vs hard" Often you make things "easy" by restricting decisions that need to be made by creating an opinionated framework/language. There is a place for those who are happy working within a heavily opinionated environment that handles many decisions for them. The opposite desire, for a more free-form environment, is not the same as desiring it to be difficult. Often the difficulty comes from needing to determine how to chart a path forward or how pieces interact. Not from the actual coding process being difficult.