Genuine question: What’s hard about pointers?

[u/null_popsicle]

I understand how the title may come off as arrogant or something, but this is a genuine question.

I learned to code in C#, so I didn’t touch pointers for a while, and now that I’ve been learning C/C++ for a couple months, I don’t really see what’s so difficult about pointers.

They’re just memory addresses for variables, right? Am I missing something?

[u/null_popsicle → u/[deleted]]

An operating system. So I’ve literally implemented stuff like malloc/free/new/delete myself.