Of course it's a different level of difficulty. People seem to overwhelmingly prefer to work on easy, shallow projects as opposed to hard, meaningful ones.
Its not like there's some standard or minimum level of competency required to create an account and comment here. I think many expect this to be an enlightened and learned crowd of commenters when most people here are likely still college age or younger. Heck, I created my account back when I was still studying in university.
Contrary to what you think, writing crypto things is interestingly hard, not discouragingly or too difficult. Anyone can write one and most coders would enjoy it. The trouble is that if you are not already good in security, your creation will have too many security problems and holes to be useful for anybody who is not NSA.
