How come Japanese isn't as hard as people say it is?

Every time I see a language learning post on Chambers, people are like "oh Japanese is so hard" and "You picked a hard one". My response is always like "it's not that bad", and then people go on about how hard it is.<br><br>In my experience, with the right tools it's really not that bad. Yeah it's got three alphabets, but I've learned most of all Hiragana and lots of Katakana. I still have a lot to study, but that's the case with any language. Yeah it's got Kanji, but I just study them like I would vocabulary in any language. I'm not a polyglot, but I'm not a beginner either. I've been learning for a few months, but I can already hold basic conversations with native speakers (I live in Japan). My coworkers are always telling me how impressed they are with my Japanese, and most of them can't even speak a word of English.<br><br>For some context, I am an English speaker and I live in Japan. I work in an office where no one speaks English, so I am forced to use it everyday.<br><br>Anyway, I use Duolingo and Anki. With Duolingo I can learn basic sentences and phrases and Anki helps me memorize the Kanji. It seems like most of the hard part for people is learning the Kanji, but I just learned them as vocabulary. I also listen to Japanese music, read Japanese books, and watch Japanese movies. I feel like the grammar and syntax make more sense than English in a lot of ways. I think a big part of my success is having to use it everyday at work, but at the same time I was able to learn the basics very quickly.<br><br>Am I just a genius or something, or am I just missing something about the language?