I start trading and learn from a friend of mine paying nothing but just a snack and coffee. I spend less and that seems not a big deal but we talk about paying dollars for mentoring and still, it guarantees nothing, I don't think that is fair. That is a big question mark and that is why I shouldn't have to spend much to learn since we can get those things freely on the internet.
And I see you were right, that means that trading is too difficult to make money unless if you are a pro-trader because if that is wrong, why he should spend time teaching instead of focusing on his trade.
That was your friend, you paid only snack and coffee and he didn't really look for making a profit from you. That is very different from someone selling $999 course deal on udemy or whatever. Those are the people who are not looking like a decent trader to me. Of course, I had people who shared their insight in the crypto trading world with me, those people didn't look for any money at all and they were people I know that made profit from trading.
I have been chatting with them for nearly 5 years now, and I have seen them buy stuff and they told me they are buying it the moment they did, and months later they told me they were getting out when it was like 8x higher. So, I have seen them get richer, and that is why I trust them and they never asked for any money from me at all. Those type of people are understandable, but the ones that ask you to pay money? I do not know how much I can trust them.