Technically that might be the case but in the real world you have network effects, inertia, and all kinds of other reason why it might be desirable to go in the other direction.
The ease has to be examined from the perspective of the system as a whole and not just the one component.
The system's design is well-documented via the SIP process. See https://github.com/stacksgov/sips (you'll want to read SIP-001 and SIP-007 in particular).
No sane person would build on top of bitcoin or use anything built on top of bitcoin. It was taken over then redesigned to be a disaster and now it is.
Until more people understand the history of Bitcoin Core (BTC) they will continue to be confused about the high fees and slow confirmation times.
[1] https://medium.com/@johnblocke/r-bitcoin-censorship-revisite...
edit: looks like you are getting downvoted too for telling the truth about Bitcoin Core.
The Bitcoin Core project was hijacked and socially engineered away from the lead developers many years ago by Adam Back's Blockstream. Today it is a Ponzi scheme designed to push people onto their "second layer" solutions to "solve" the problems they themselves introduced.
[1] https://newrepublic.com/article/160905/tether-cryptocurrency...
[2] https://medium.com/@johnblocke/r-bitcoin-censorship-revisite...
https://medium.com/@johnblocke/a-brief-and-incomplete-histor...