I find Objective-C hard as well, but it has more to do with the nature of the message passing syntax that objective-c has.

For instance, for the life of me I CANNOT get calls to NSNotificationFactory right the first try, and there are no compiler hint to help you...it just doesn't work for some reason.

There are other items like that. Not much help when the app crashes, lack of Namespaces (class name collisions), etc.

Then throw in all the fun of submitting an app to the store. Working with iAds and In App Purchases will make you want to hurt something.