Its hard, I'm saying that it's hard for a new comer to judge the crypto world by only seeing the btc value. BTC is a part of crypto currency and the other currency is also a part of it. if you see the marginal value among the bitcoin and others then it's shocking. From my point a new comer should try the other currency 1st to observe the crypto market and it's massive fluctuation.
For what it is a hard? After understand the crypto currency then it will not be hard. When we starting a any work then it is hard but after get experience every work will be easy. So same here in cyrpto currencies. Also i suggest for newbie should try start with bitcoin, actually bitcoin coin has long time but the other crypto currency sometime we are confused between coins.