bullet hells are misrepresented to the public as being about dodging tons of stuff all the time, being very flighty, reacting to everything constantly. in reality, they're much more meditative, built over a very teachable, very learnable set of concepts to mitigate reaction. bullet density is art

however, there is next to no in-game tutorialization of concepts regarding how you can move between safe "lanes" or how to control the flow of aimed bullets via micrododging to maximize safe time. and, for dumbass masculinity reasons, the culture plays them up as hard. but they're not hard