That's not the hard way - it's the efficient way. Instead of learning everything from the beginning, you learn only the stuff that can be immediately used for y

That's not the hard way - it's the efficient way. Instead of learning everything from the beginning, you learn only the stuff that can be immediately used for your goal/task - fast, efficient and terribly unscalable, but good enough for most people who don't actually want to be, for example, programmers, but just want to build an app or something.