Trading has always been something that people viewed as difficult, at least that's what I thought when I started, but I like the fact that I see a lot more people doing both now.
And trading is difficult, nothing has changed. It's a well-known fact that only 1% make it in trading, the rest of the people lose and this 1% earns what they lose. The growth of trading is influenced by how easy the trading itself is and how profitable it can be. Trading isn't very different from gambling, they share very similar patterns and gambling is a very popular thing in the world. These days, more and more people have access to trading websites and there are also tons of trading influencers who sell their scam product about how to trade effectively, so all of these summed together influence the growth of the number of traders.