Learning is not the problem it is change that causes difficulty. Mode 2 is reasonably serviceable; it is close to a real helicopter. For fixed wing pilots like me it is a little bit unusual, but then so is flying a real helicopter. Helicopters and drones do things that fixed wing aircraft find difficult if not impossible. Flying backwards for one, this is indeed possible but only with suitable altitude and arguably best with a operational ejection system.
When I started drone flying I tried out the from Gengis9 (1#) suggested layout and I cannot knock the logic, but it also needs to be learned up to a point where action-reaction are automatic, I was concerned that by handing over the controls to someone else without a software changeover would be particularly dangerous. I use mode 2 as standard, but it is still a matter of personal preference.
As a child (like in the dark ages) my father made a bicycle with a gear reversed steering system, now that required a complete rethink, but I mastered it and also got used to my new front teeth relatively quickly.
Orientation is a lot more difficult with an unmanned vehicle, trying to reason, is left left or right left or… You need to be thinking as if you were in the vehicle. That is why flying “with the camera” is much easier than line of sight and object avoidance in forwards flight much easier, the insistence when drone flying of having “line of sight” is sensible for an overview of the environment but I question whether it is the safest mode of flying. Good to have a spotter.
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