It's still extremely difficult.
If we assume that the threshold of what is "difficult" is for example 1) installing a desktop application, or even running a deskop OS.
2) Running an email provider other than what you are already doing (gmail, hotmail, yahoo mail, ...), or switching email providers
3) Copying and pasting text or using files.
This was perhaps a viable thing to do for users in 2005 because if you were on the internet, chances are you at least had a desktop computer, and if you used email chances are you already had to struggle with an email client.
But now? Anything that isn't as easy as installing an app on your device (a device that isn't a full computer) is "difficult".
It's not that it's harder today, it's that everything else is easier (Like telegram/signal and other privacy-minded services), and that there are now 6 billion internet users and most never used a computer and never will.
If we assume that the threshold of what is "difficult" is for example 1) installing a desktop application, or even running a deskop OS.
2) Running an email provider other than what you are already doing (gmail, hotmail, yahoo mail, ...), or switching email providers
3) Copying and pasting text or using files.
This was perhaps a viable thing to do for users in 2005 because if you were on the internet, chances are you at least had a desktop computer, and if you used email chances are you already had to struggle with an email client.
But now? Anything that isn't as easy as installing an app on your device (a device that isn't a full computer) is "difficult".
It's not that it's harder today, it's that everything else is easier (Like telegram/signal and other privacy-minded services), and that there are now 6 billion internet users and most never used a computer and never will.