You can read about software all day. You can watch someone else or even have them explain it to you. Until your fingers touch the keyboard and your sweaty palms caress the mouse, you aren't really learning anything. If someone tells you it can't be done, he's probably wrong. If someone tells you it can be done, it'll probably take him a lot longer than he thinks.
Software is easier to use today than it was ten years ago.
It will almost certainly become easier ten years from now. But it's going to be a long time before it becomes easy enough. Most of us forget that, and the price is usually deadlines we can't quite make. There is always more than one way to accomplish a task, and there is rarely a best way. We will always find a use for more speed, more memory, more disk space, more software, more intelligence, more colors, more ad infinitum.