German SV2O is still very jarring to me as a language learner; I just can‘t get used to looking forward in the sentence to decipher the verb, as compared to English.
Definitely, as a fellow German learner. The "flexibility" or unpredictability of word order, largely due to the greater inflection based on grammatical case, makes it much more challenging unless one is a native speaker who can probably more intuitively decipher the roles of each word.