Well it is way easier, there's no question about that.
With digital you have any kind of brush and color imaginable, you'll never run into a scenario where you have to know which paint to mix to get a certain color or have to improvise with a shitty brush because you misplaced your good ones for the hundredth fucking time.
On top of that, you have the ability to easily erase any mistakes you might make with a simple keyboard command, you don't have to think as hard about every brush stroke before you make them because there's no consequences if you fuck something up.
Layers fall into that category as well, if you don't like where something is in a digital painting then all you have to do is move the layer it's on around until it looks right, with traditional you either need to cover it up, wait for the paint to dry, and try again or roll with it and find a way to make it work which is what Bob Ross meant when he said "We don't make mistakes, we just have happy accidents".
This isn't me saying that digital art isn't "real" art, it is and it doesn't make sense to say it's not, but it's not as hard as traditional drawing or painting. There are certain disciplines you learn with pen and paper or paint and canvas that you don't get with digital, these disciplines tend to make you a better artist once you've gotten used to them, that's why I always tell people just starting out to put off getting that five-hundred dollar tablet and just pick up some ballpoints and a sketchbook.
