hobby accessiblity - barriers to entry vs barriers to enjoyment

I have a lot of hobbies and interests and I love getting new folks into them who are interested, but there is a consistent problem I face with that, even when the theoretical barrier to entry is low - that the barrier to actually enjoying the hobby, to having a nice time with it, remains too high.

As an example, consider specialty coffee. Specialty coffee is now sold preground in supermarkets, and brewing gear is very cheap, with french presses and pourover brewers being available for as little as 10 pounds or so. So that is easy to get into, right? You can easily get and brew coffee. But the problem is that you will probably have a bad time. Most supermarkets will keep coffee stock for a very long time, and it will be stale by the time you buy The grind size may not be fit for the brewer you have. It's likely that you will end up with bad tasting coffee, and that sucks and might put you off the hobby and put you off coffee in general. To have a nice time with specialty coffee, you really would need to have a local roaster or specialty coffee shop that can grind your beans fresh (which not everyone does) or a home grinder (which is an additional cost), or would need to know brewing methods that work to maximise stale coffee (which is a knowledge barrier). These things form what I consider the barrier to enjoyment for specialty coffee.

A lot of effort goes into reducing the barrier to entry for hobbies, and that is largely a good thing. But it's not much good if the experience that someone will have at the entry level of that hobby will be a bad experience and one that may put them off, when having gear or knowledge one step up from that could lead to having a very nice time and enjoying it.

For coffee, this has got better recently with companies like Kingrinder making better equipment much cheaper than it was, and lowering that barrier to enjoyment by doing so. But the knowledge barrier to find those things, the entry level of not just being able to participate in but enjoy the hobby is still high, and new folks will keep being drawn to very cheap entry points that lead to a bad, incorrect, unenjoyable idea of what they can get out of a hobby, that is far more likely to cause them to give up following an interest and get turned away from something that could bring them joy.

So what is the point of this musing? Well, to try and get folks to consider the barriers not just to entry but to enjoyment in their hobbies, and ways that they can try and break those down, and to help those newer to those hobbies find what they can be even at just a better level than the very, very cheapest.