I am going to vehemently disagree with you Phantom. I found Davinci easier to learn than Microsoft Movie Maker or a few others that I tried and got frustrated with.
Disclaimer: I have no relation to Davinci Resolve of BMD other than being a user.
While it's true, you can get a simplified version of Premier for $60, why would you want to spend that money when you can get a full featured product that competes with Adobe's full (expensive) subscription product for free?
It has been my experience that when you are unfamiliar with any program of a given type they are all pretty much equally hard to learn. The more advanced ones just have to be boiled down to basics first. But once you start with a program and learn the idiocyncracies it isn't that much more difficult than any other program. HOWEVER, once you are familiar with one, switching can be painful because you introduce another learning curve and have to unlearn the protocols of the first. Why go through that, starting with something that you can potentially grow out of (quickly)?
At the end of June last year, the 28th I think, I got my first drone, a Mavic Mini. I had never flown a drone before nor edited video since VHS in 1984. I was pretty much at ground zero on both scores. I found Davinci Resolve and within two weeks, having returned to the scene three additional times to capture more footage, I produced my first video with Davinci Resolve. The following is what I produced after my first two weeks of flying and LEARNING to edit. TWO WEEKS!...
I suppose if you want to do stuff like the Brady Bunch multi-views or begin doing more creative stuff in Fusion it can get complicated. But once you get the basics down, everything else is building blocks. JMO
