That's the way it should be going, if you end up trading yourself then you will know what went wrong and where it went wrong, if you keep doing copy trading you do not know what the person you copied did and why he did it and why it went wrong, and you will not be able to fix it in the future.
Learning how to trade is not good for just profits, it's good for the losses as well and the return will certainly be decent without a doubt. I think it's the most important part because we are talking about something that will benefit you when you lose, since you will be able to just put it all ahead of you and will make sure that you are doing the right thing. It's not simple, but you will be better because of each loss if you do that.
This isn't easy for the newbies and they end up making moves that would be mainly because others told them to do it. I understand that it's a mistake to follow orders from other people and that is why people should avoid it as much as they possibly can but that doesn't mean that they are going to be able to make their own trades as soon as they start.
So, this is why I think it should be important to have a little separation, which means that when you are buying something you could potentially buy something just because someone else said, but you should also be able to understand what went wrong when you bought something and it dropped in price, it will allow you to make a bigger and better trade in the future.