Photoshop is by far the most difficult major application to learn. Adobe's dominance of the industry has seen to it that the company has no real incentive to drag its user interface out of the previous century. Sure, it has massive power and features like a dog has fleas, but when you consider the learning curve with Photoshop and compare it to that of other major software packages, it just doesn't cut it.
But because it dominates the industry, people just have to learn it anyway. I can almost forgive Adobe its outrageous pricing (compare Photoshop with most other major software packages, it's about double the going price for a full-featured heavyweight - though AutoCAD is even dearer, of course) but the time wasted learning your way around a poorly designed and needlessly difficult interface is time that could be much, much more usefully spent doing other things.
But in the end, what else are you going to do?
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