While I can't possibly know how it is for you, hacking my 3DS was extremely frustrating and also took me several hours in addition to days of prior research because I was sure that I would fuck up at every step of a supposedly straightforward guide and sweating like a pickle didn't help either.
yeah i did like 3 weeks of prior research, switched to a secure version of firefox, and then had to fix all my passwords.. the prep work definitely takes a long time if you are unfamillar with internet safety or piracy like i was. Tomorrow I'm gonna look more into getting the DS and GBA libraries on my 3ds, but for now im just gonna play the games I can already access