The truth I have tasted is the sheer complicatedness of Bitcoin itself and it's subsequent layered protocols - Lightning, Monero, etc. It is far from a "start and forget" kinda situation for a full node. Bitcoin itself also isn't private; every peer in the network has a full log of all transactions from your wallet, start to finish (unless they pruned). It is far from easy and due to the many scandals and scams involving Bitcoin, the name alone has left a bitter taste in many people's mouth; "dark web money" or "hacker money" are sometimes used as terms to describe it if people don't have the word Bitcoin itself at the tip of their tongue, because that is what most people think it seems to be.

I am going through the trubble of setting all of this up, so that I can understand it properly and then decide to keep it or delete it (as in, my full node and stuff, you can't exactly delete a wallet AFAIK).

The orange rabbit hole is deep. Very, very, very deep.