You’ll probably hear this from a few people, but if you think WordPress is hard, go have a look at Drupal. You’ll be “amazed” as how hard a simple CMS can be.

And then I’ll come up with some kind of ‘way cool’ idea and a complicated way of getting there only to figure out it’s not all that complicated after all.

So hang in there and give it a chance.

It’s not that people do not want to assist you but your topic is very vague. Any system has a learning curve and if there’s somewhere that you had a concern or found difficult then sharing that could help sort out where the problem is.

For the things needed to work it; there are tons of templates, themes and plugins out there and a majority of them are free.

Starting a one man show ?