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There's a difference between simple and easy.
A shortcut on your daily commute can be easy. Take this way instead and it will get you there faster. Maybe it's a new road. The next day there will be two or three cars doing it, then ten, then a hundred. After a while it's no longer a shortcut.
But what if the shortcut were a tightrope strung over a pit of alligators? It would be be simple but not easy. "All you have to do is walk over this twenty-foot rope." But not many people would want to risk their lives to save twenty minutes going to work.
There are at least three ways that simple is different than easy: skill, practice, and luck.
Maybe someone has a knack for walking on tightropes. Or maybe she developed that skill from years and years of perseverance and practice. Or maybe she is just lucky. The point being, it takes something else to walk a tight-rope strung over alligators. Not everyone can do it.
Easy is something anyone can do without skill, practice, or luck. Simple takes more.