True, everyone has a choice and they are free to choose which means that if they are not ready for everything that they will face in trading especially the possibility of risk then it is better to postpone the intention and then dedicate themselves to first learning everything that is needed in preparation for starting trading and you have mentioned some correct points above such as knowledge, skills in terms of analyzing, planning, risk management, along with financial management, emotional, mental and psychological which some of these points will be very useful to make it easier for you to find profits along with avoiding yourself from the possibility of too significant losses. The question is why do we need so much to prepare to start trading? Obviously as you said that however trading is a difficult activity, someone who says that making a profit in trading is easy is those who come without having the right understanding of what the world of trading really is.
Because it is not uncommon for us to also find traders who end up failing with a concerning situation where they lose large amounts of money and usually these are typical traders who are too focused on their intentions and goals of making profits but instantly while however no success is produced without a process of struggle and hard work, the point is that nothing is instant and you never know about the process of what difficulties have been passed by traders who have now managed to achieve consistent profits.
Why are people afraid to trade? This is something that is very difficult for the public to understand, the people themselves don't want to think about complicated things according to some of them, especially since the things they see are very gray to them, looking deeper into the matter of trading has many risks that will be discovered if we not being able to study this matter well, we must be able to understand and study everything that will happen, maybe it will happen, and it will definitely happen.
Trading is an activity that is difficult for most people to do and understand, not a few are successful in this trading, all of them learn the risks and profits quite well, that's why some of us don't want to know and it ends in failure which results in loss. money which we call capital in trading.
The point is that in doing something that has risks, if we succeed in doing it well then the profits we will get are not small, everything goes according to the process that we do well so the results will be good.