It's not just you. I've never packaged RPMs, but I have made archlinux packages, which are incredibly simple, you just write a bash script with certain conventi

It's not just you. I've never packaged RPMs, but I have made archlinux packages, which are incredibly simple, you just write a bash script with certain conventions. But the process for building debs seems unnecessarily complicated to me. There are a bunch of different tools you need to use, several steps, multiple files you need to create, etc. And finding good documentation is difficult.