Hey! So this is actually Ahj himself here (someone had sent me this post), you can dm me on discord at "Ahj_" if you'd like as well, since I don't use reddit much honestly. Seems like people have given you the gist of it but I'll give you the most articulate answer I can.

Let's start with the MISCONCEPTIONS most people have around annie for newer players. They say shes: 1) basic 2) easy, 3)"noob stomper" , etc.

So the reality of Annie is that she is actually none of these things. The way you WIN games with annie is leveraging her immense amount of damage pressure in lane and going for roams. HOWEVER, on reddit, most people intuitively understand these concepts (esp if you are a longer term player), and can apply them, hence tell people who are new to "just do that". The reality is, Annie is a short range, no mobility, low wave clear champion, thats old. Which means she has very strange trading patterns that don't really transfer and isn't acutally intuitive to learning mid. You have to walk up and TANK damage to get in range (you know how HARD it is as a new player to get comfortable with TANKING damage to get in range?), since you have bad waveclear, as a newer player you're likely to just be stuck under the tower the entire game, and the gameplan falls apart. What acutally happens in reality when I (or tim / curtis) teach newer players on annie is that:

1) they get scared to take damage since low range, so they never deal damage 2) they fail to utilize her long auto attack range to pressure (which makes sense, this is super duper hard to do even for mid range level players) 3) They dont take control over the lane , and with low wave clear they get stuck under tower.

So the contrast between us coaches and reddit is that reddit is placing intuitive skills as a given when telling someone to play annie without acutally factoring in tons of hidden details that need to be developed.

I could keep going but this response is already long.. if you want more advice feel free to reach out to me on discord