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It's normal to have a bit of bumpy start to learning this kind of thing, especially as the resources age and the nature of learning from the community as a whole means that not everyone giving advice is necessarily a professional. It comes with the modding territory, and I'd say it's worth trying a few more times unless you find that you dislike the process as a whole. At the end of the day, the creating should be as fun as playing
I have Aspergers myself, so you're not alone in that regard. It's a great source of the motivation to make the things you want to begin with, though!
It's hard to tell without seeing examples, but I'd guess you've just been running into a few issues that are common when starting out. Keep in mind, meshing and texturing from scratch is
advanced stuff. The vast majority of modders are not doing all of that, and those who do are often employed in that line of work already or making CC is paying their bills. It's not a small feat to pick up those skills. Remember that when aspiring to learn all these things, it will take time. They're awesome skills to have, but it's not entry level. It will be a lot of work regardless of the software you settle on.
Do you have the Open Beta version of Sims4Studio? Star for Windows, Aurora for Mac.
That version is the most up to date and can directly import to and from .blend files for 3.6 through to 4.2, plus backwards compatibility for 2.7
The related plugins should also still function as expected, but I'm more familiar with TS3 modding so there may be other plugins I don't know of!
Definitely include the version number when searching for tutorials, you can also try searching by year.
My personal favourite is this one, which covers a lot of universal basics that apply to 2.8 and later:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Be_9yovWwWA
Blender is intimidating at first, but I'd describe it as difficult to learn yet easy to master. It is popular for a reason, it's worth that bit of effort.
For TS4 specifically, the community is quite quiet on MTS. You'd likely have more luck finding guides and modding discussion on the Sims4Studio forum and on Tumblr.
There is a small array of helpful links on the wiki here, though they may be a little outdated:
https://modthesims.info/wiki.php?title=Sims_4:Modding
Another thing to note is that if you find you end up with a preference of Blender version, you can often do the majority of the work in that version and simply export the mesh to use it in whichever version has the required features to finish it.
If you enjoy making things, keep coming back to it and chipping away at the projects you want to work on. If something is overly frustrating, consider working on something smaller and come back later.
You can also ask for help with specific issues and upload screenshots and files here, or other communities like S4S forums and certain Discord servers.
It's also okay if you decide it's not the hobby for you. I wish you the best of luck either way