It can get on your nerves, that's for sure. I watched some tutorials yesterday and this morning. Then, I did a basic animation of two squares chasing each other. Then when it cam etime to save the file, it was like trying to break into a safe. Long story short, I thought I had saved the file, closed out. Then tried to reopen the file. Nope, nothing. File is gone. I only lost about an hour of my life on the animation, but I really don't understand why they would make it difficult to save. What's wrong with SAVE AS, name the file and file type, click SAVE. But, from what I gather, blender files have to end in .blender or something like that. And there's something about "C/" or something.
I admit to not being the most computer savvy person out there, but I thought it was well within my means to save a file. Seeing some of the footage put out with this program is motivation to learn it but I'm planning for some frustration.