Any application with a lot of functions is going to be hard to learn, don't kid yourself.  If you start out with some simple low-feature modeler, you're still going to have to spend brain power to learn it, and then when you outgrow it, all that learning goes to waste (not to mention whatever it cost!)  In my opinion if you're serious about modeling, don't start with a toy toolbox, start with the real thing (Blender, Max, Cinema etc).  Of course if you're not SURE you're serious about modeling that's a different story :)

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