This is the only advise I give people when they want to fly heli's, don't cheap out, the cheap heli's have soo much slop and are poorly made, this translates into a harder to fly machine.
Unfortunately, this is a catch 22 situation.
You don't want to spend much money until you like it. But, you won't get to feel how good and easy a heli can be until you spend much money.
So, you spend little on a RTF that doesn't fly well and you give up thinking it is too hard for you.