While story telling with text is a very different process than photography, the mastery of anything takes a long time for most.
As the saying goes, you have to break a lot of eggs to make a soufflé. Not that that has anything to do with anything, but it’s the kind of allegory to which people relate, even if they haven’t made a soufflé, written a story, or taken what anyone considers to be a good foto. Such are the differences between text and 2d imagery.