Agreed. The hardest part is learning the paradigm behind the software. Then you seem to get the hang of things, and can get the job done, but later you find there's a much easier way to do the same thing, and you start picking up tricks that make the work easier.
There's a style of modeling that I see used on the internet where you take a basic shape like a cube and then use other shapes to add/subtract to that to get what you need. You're sculpting without using dimensions. Ok, it looks easy, but that ain't how my brain works.
You're still doing that even the "normal" way, but it's easier for me to understand drawing sketches, extruding them, and adding more sketches to that object to get what I want. Learning to use Revolves and Mirroring is a game changer IMHO. Once you learn to think in those terms complex items become simple.
