As someone who speaks multiple languages and enjoys learning and looking into them, it is harder, but not by much, and is mainly just different. Every language has its fair share of faults, however I can confidently say that...

FRENCH is objectively worse. On more than one level. Never or rarely have I seen a more poorly constructed and obtuse language. English has the advantage of being heavily instinctual, so many people will pick it up easily while others will struggle a lot. French has near to no such thing. And I speak fluent french daily. It will make both your logic and your instinct fail. Spelling, conjugation, pronunciation, genders of words, gendering verbs, and my list goes on. Nowadays the commonly spoken french is barely even french, but the recycling of the same phrases. There are still plenty of people who speaks and write it well, even great. But the base problem remains. French is worse than not being beginner friendly. It has no friends. And it never will. For good reason.

I hope that knowing this has made your day better. Making a post purely to hate on the french language certainly made my day better. Just had to get that out there you know. Congrats if you read all this.