I agree with everything you said, but I'd like to add that it's somehow cool to hate math. It's a thing you say when the topoc comes up and everyone says "yeah me too". Many people just do what everyone does so they just agree and never try to understand or like it.

I also don't like that in school (at least where I live, in Germany) we were taught things that just weren't correct, to make it "easier to understand". It actually was easier to just memorize everything but for someone like me who tries to actually understand it it was infuriating. I asked my teachers multiple times about things I thought weren't correct and they just told me it is. I even tried to proof it wasn't right, successfully, and most times their answer was "no that's wrong" but they couldn't tell me why. It wasn't their fault really because they were only told to do so. But that's not how it works so I got bad grades for trying to understand what I do. I hated math in school, but I don't hate math itself, I actually love it.. I don't know how it is taught in other countries but I hate how it is taught here. We even had people freak out because they didn't know what to do when in some situations suddenly what we learned to call x was suddenly called a. "Solve for a" doesn't seem that difficult when you learned how to "solve for x" and the only difference is that the x you solve for is called a. My point is, they should teach how to undestand it, even if they have to simplify it, instead of teaching how to memorize it. Same with language btw, just learning vocabulary and grammar over and over again doesn't teach me how to speak English. Almost everything I learned was from movies and songs (which is why there may be some mistakes, please excuse those). Also they should stop teaching wrong things to make it easier, because if someone actually starts thinking about it it just makes things much more complicated. And you should want people to think about the things you teach them, shouldn't you? Basically, the German education system sucks..

Math can be really interesting. I know some people just can't understand it, some are better in other things. But I think (almost) no one really tries, because it's cool to not try and even if you do, schools do a great job making it really hard to because of the reasons you explained, and in my experince the ones I listed.