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Mostly the latter. I taught myself to model by roughing out a shape with cubes and cylinders in the correct dimensions, then refining everything as needed. Freecad seems to require a fully baked 2D sketch before I can extruded anything into 3D. I've succeeded in that a couple of times, but its always been a struggle.
Honestly, the biggest hurdle is probably just immersing myself in the learning curve. I was regularly modeling stuff for work when I learned DesignSpark, but I don't have much call for the skill lately.
Maybe check out Plasticity. It has a very generous 30 day trail and has a pay once - own forever perpetual license for about 120 bucks. It's very far removed from the parametric design that is used for engineering applications but for creative modeling that is more numerically driven than something like Blender its perfect. It's a very good middle ground between 3D modelling and CAD design. It's very fast and intuitive compared to FreeCAD and runs natively on Linux.