Probably easier to get into mining so anyone can do it, literally anyone. Couple years ago there was more of a buzz around mining and creating your own money. Now mining has become so specialized its not any longer for the common folk.
and within 2 months of screwing up bitcoin security(difficulty) to allow anyone.. it will go back to people accumulating into pools/farms again, due to greed and eventually in 6 months we are back to where we started but with weaker security due to the drastic change that simply backdated security(difficulty) by 3 years