I know this is a loaded question that almost everyone who has ever worked on an Agile team will scramble to answer. Maybe this has come up in some of your retrospectives, about how the team found certain aspects tough to deal with or follow. But I am not talking about your feelings here. This is about Scrum itself, and its personification as it assumes quite an imposing personality. I came across this while reading this article at http://www.controlchaos.com/my-articles.
The author tells us how the scientific approach has taught us to make a hypothesis, test it and then apply it. This is also called the Newtonian or deterministic approach. But this makes less sense as the complexity increases, and the process becomes more empirical than defined.
Scrum is empirical because it embraces change, and evolves with it. Scrum makes things possible, but Scrum does not promise to make them predictable. Scrum is hard because it goes against the basic human nature of trying to simplify everything. As people achieve success with Scrum, they will set higher goals making it more complex to achieve them.
Yes, Scrum is hard. And I also think arts, humanities and basic sciences are underrated in India. If engineering is the topmost trade and the epitome of a fine education, how come no one ever taught me what a Newtonian approach was? :)
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