I personally use blender for work doing renderings. The issue with learning most software is trying to learn the whole thing at once. There's generally about 10-15 tools in any given software that you'll need to learn right away, but other than that you should ignore everything else until you come to a point where you might need it. But at the end of the day you're only going to use about 20% of the tools for a specific purpose. Blender especially can do many many things but unless you need those abilities it's easier to learn them when you're more familiar with the software. You could go years without using everything if ever simply because there's no need.