It's a skill based system but that doesn't make it difficult to understand. Am I better at interdictions now than when they came out? Sure. Were they so difficult at the start that I failed a shit ton before I got good at it? Absolutely not. A ten year old could do it.
How many experienced players interdicted you? In all my time playing Elite since Beta, I've had one player try to interdict me, and it was pretty clear I was more experienced than him from the fact that he was a Harmless Freegle interdicting a Competent Viper. And in this post the two people - the OP and the parent commenter - fail interdictions against experienced players. And the OP isn't a new player by any stretch of the imagination.
To expand on that, there's been a lot of press surrounding Elite in regard to it not babying the players.
The game itself comes with tutorials. The game comes with tutorials for docking, landing, travelling and combat. I don't care whether the press, or you, or your dog, think it's "babying the player" - by the game's own logic, skill based activities have tutorials.
And to expand on that, the game comes with the Incursion combat exercise. Which, newsflash, isn't a cakewalk. Even experienced players struggle with it, never mind new players.
Finally, you've repeatedly claimed I'm in favour of removing difficult game elements because they're difficult, which I never have, ever claimed, anywhere in the conversation, at all, ever. Seriously, stop saying that.
What I've been saying this entire time, which you've failed to get into that thick skull of yours, is that there isn't a means for a new player to adequately prepare for interdictions from experienced players. It's a skill that can be honed on both the offensive and defensive side, that isn't taught in a tutorial, isn't given a practice area and becomes more difficult based on the equipment of the player performing the interdiction. And your bloody-minded insistence that it's the defender's fault 100% of the time they fail an interdiction is fucking retarded already.