How to judge the difficulty of using FCE?

We have recently moved to a macbook pro from pc (and are very happy!).
One thing we used the pc for was editing camcorder footage - my wife became pretty adept at knocking up decent mini-movies from our holiday footage using Ulead's Videostudio.
imovie has slighly disappointed her as she finds it doesn't quite do enough. We are happy to get FCE but fear that the price increase indicates an increase in difficulty that may prove to be a problem. For PCs there seem to be loads of software in the £50-100 bracket (sorry, British) but just a big gap for macs.
I realise this is a very difficult question to ask on a forum as it depends so much on perceptions of difficulty. However, would reasonable comfort and ability on something like videostudio indicate anything about the relative ease of using FCE?
Thanks in advance...

.. I'm more the iMovie guy (you'll usually meet me at the iM boards...), but I'm using both, iM since v2 ... and FCE 3.5 for a while..
As a hobbyist, my stakes are low on final product, my recordings are mostly 'a day at the zoo' ... stuff like that.
My biggest project was last year a StarWars Fanproject, featuring my 7y old son as the very young Anakin .. droids, light sabres, spaceships.. I needed FCE as 'special effects machine', needed multi-layer (video for compositing, audio for zillions of sound effects..).-
FCE is VERY different from any consumer app (my ex-father-in-law uses Ulead on his PC...), it is not meant as a 'click preset button done' app... It asks for a deep understanding in movie making & technology; it asks for skills to transfer 'imagination' into 'clicks, sets and numbers'
For me, movie making is 99% cuts and a disolve; I don't even use the new 'themes' in iM .. looking good, but doesn't 'fit' to the '(non)style' of my projects.. so, iM fullfills my needs mostly .. .
.. but, to be honest: I will re-edit the whole SWproject.. 'cause it's fun to play 'Big Boy' using FCE... after a year of usage, I start to realize HOW to work with it. I actually work thru a Tom Wolsky book, which was in my shelf unread for more than a year.. Tom has a wonderful way of discribing and 'illustrating' things & issues .. ok, there's a slight language barrier, but you as a British should manage that ;))
summary:
iM is an excellent consumer's tool.
FCE is an even more excellent tool, if you are interesting in movie-making 'as a pro' .
get a book from Tom ...

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