It's low-hanging fruit because it depended on a bunch of mathematics and technology that Euler benefitted from: algebra, the printing press, and mass-produced p

It's low-hanging fruit because it depended on a bunch of mathematics and technology that Euler benefitted from: algebra, the printing press, and mass-produced paper. Sure, the Ancient Egyptians had papyrus but that is nothing compared to the volume of paper Euler had available to him. Euler lived nearly three centuries after the invention of the printing press. He had vast numbers of books available to him and essentially unlimited paper to write on. He also had been tutored in algebra which remains the most important development in the history of mathematics. The abstract manipulation of symbols made possible by algebra is such an enormous leap over the geometric methods of the ancient mathematicians. It allows one to solve countless problems trivially in seconds which would take days to solve geometrically.