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Programming is unbounded, it spans the range from so easy, a child can do it untrained, to impossibly complex.

So "it's hard" is the natural outcome, given we always strive to optimize our efforts, therefore we keep pushing programming beyond "it's easy" right until "it's hard" but before "it's impossible".

Therefore programming is most typically "hard" for most people programming at any given moment.

So what does it say and about whom, seems like a wrong question. It only shows a property intrinsic to systems (including social, biological, artificial and so on) and how systems balance themselves.