Well my friend python is really interesting although I wholeheartedly suggest you start by learning solidity, I think it will be much more useful for you to know how to create an intelligent contract, and that will give you a better understanding of python, than for true using it you can make your own comment response bots for hive, among many other things.
There are whitepapers that are complicated, I agree with that, but nowadays if you review the ones that today, the models are usually the same, with some modifications only in the nft or graphics, but as a starting point, when auditing the contracts , you realize that they are generally the same or have the same code as others.
There are really very few projects that are innovative in terms of whitepaper and contracts.
RE: Why is crypto so complicated?