The stuff that people who "take it slow" accomplish in 70k plays, people who challenge themselves accomplish in 30k plays. Slow maps barely teach you anything, especially if you're a complete beginner. What a beginner needs to learn is to get familiar with everything in the game, instead of learning to be consistent on a level of difficulty that will be completely negligible later on.
People who spend all of their time playing normals need to re-learn the game from the start as soon as they start playing maps that have streams and jumps. They suddenly get introduced to concepts like snapping on jumps instead of lazily flowing around with the cursor, of having to need to click buttons much faster - which is a physical challenge that you better start training as early as possible - and being able to listen to the song rhythm and follow it to hit objects, which is the very basic skill of a rhythm game, and a skill that playing normals doesn't teach you. People who play normals end up staring at approach circles instead of learning to plan ahead.
Being consistent on normals is a useless skill and a waste of time if you ever intend to play higher difficulties.
Or in the wise words somebody once said: "You don't learn to play Insanes by not playing Insanes".
People who spend all of their time playing normals need to re-learn the game from the start as soon as they start playing maps that have streams and jumps. They suddenly get introduced to concepts like snapping on jumps instead of lazily flowing around with the cursor, of having to need to click buttons much faster - which is a physical challenge that you better start training as early as possible - and being able to listen to the song rhythm and follow it to hit objects, which is the very basic skill of a rhythm game, and a skill that playing normals doesn't teach you. People who play normals end up staring at approach circles instead of learning to plan ahead.
Being consistent on normals is a useless skill and a waste of time if you ever intend to play higher difficulties.
Or in the wise words somebody once said: "You don't learn to play Insanes by not playing Insanes".