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Plumbing is way, way easier than drywall (in fact I would go so far as to call the supply side of it “easy,” including soldering copper pipes); it’s just that the penalty for failure is so much higher.

I partly agree and partly don’t.

Plumbing as a field is way broader than installing drywall, and there’s a ton to learn. No single plumbing task is really harder than hanging drywall (except maybe welding), but doing all the drywall in an entire building is a hell of a lot easier than doing all the plumbing for it.

I’m only talking about DIY plumbing a single-family house, and I only said the supply side was easier. The drain side is more complicated to understand, with the slopes and venting and whatnot.