Let me give an allegory - perhaps not exact, but you'll get my point. Much of the mathematics (either discreet, differential, computation geometry, etc) is actually not so difficult to understand when told right... but incidentally, there were some folks back in the day who decided to write it using the whole greek alphabet and then some cryptic symbols in it (like these https://cloford.com/resources/charcodes/utf-8_mathematical.h...). By doing so they effectively formed some weird cryptic cult of the Mathematicians, which eventually repelled many people away from the discipline, and still do.
Later one, some perhaps not so smart people, figured how to express stuff as 'sum', 'product' in for-loops and suddenly the whole world was writing programs while decrying math as complex. even though... programs are logic are math, right?