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Arch and its variants(CachyOS, EndeavourOS, and Manjaro) are just "difficult" insofar as they usually need you to understand the basics of using the terminal, and how to look up documentation as needed.
With CachyOS, I haven't played much with the others so I can't speak for them, you could get away with using the GUI tools shipped by default for a long time and not have any problems.
If it works for you, that's what matters! Difficulty is subjective, too.
CachyOS is what I'll be jumping to. Thanks to the stupid hardware price surge, my initial plan of just buying a new stick of SSD and a bigger HDD for stuff for the move is not viable anymore. So it just takes a while because I'm making sure all the personal data I have on my only stick of SSD still running W10 is safely copied off of it. Not a lot can be done with my current NTFS formated HDD unless I want to gamble with my personal data doing partition magic (I don't want to gamble).
I'd like to think jumping to an arch based distro with guardrails will help me learn linux safely. I'd have the cachy and arch wiki and forum to learn from.