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Is writing really as hard as people here make it out to be, or is it an endeavor that makes people set absurdly high standards for themselves?
This is the third pre-submission edit of this comment, so you probably have a very good point.
The standards you set for yourself depend on your goals. If your goal is to be a successful blogger or book author it makes sense to set high standards for yourself.
Freud owns a lot of his influence to good writing skills. We probably wouldn't speak of Darwinism if Darwin wouldn't have written a well written book with "On the Origin of Species". Darwin would be much more one of many different biologists if he hadn't written a book that people enjoy to read.
The C programming language owns much of their success to a well written book.
Your examples of extreme success kind of prove my tongue-in-cheek point.
Success is rare. I think that's probably because it's mostly luck but people don't want to accept that; compare "hard" multiple-choice tests in medical/legal education.