The only thing comparable is maybe drawing or playing an instrument. Math can never be learned from a textbook.
Anything that's just algorithmic steps would be done by a computer, so the useful math people want to learn requires some kind of insight or new mode of thought, or advanced methods that have not been made into an app yet.
I suspect when people say math is easy, they mean arithmetic and pre-algebra, and they're not concerned with practical applications at all, just the idea of general education and new ways of thought, and who knows if the level of math they are talking about is even enough to indirectly do much in daily life.
Anything that's just algorithmic steps would be done by a computer, so the useful math people want to learn requires some kind of insight or new mode of thought, or advanced methods that have not been made into an app yet.
I suspect when people say math is easy, they mean arithmetic and pre-algebra, and they're not concerned with practical applications at all, just the idea of general education and new ways of thought, and who knows if the level of math they are talking about is even enough to indirectly do much in daily life.