As a newbie, I found Wikitree's learning curve to be pretty steep. I had started a tree on another site some time ago, but that was not a public tree, and thus no one could question and correct my mistakes (of which I had many, I have to admit). During the COVID lockdowns I decided to take the leap and migrate over to Wikitree. Again, it was a steep learning curve, but I kept plugging away, and I did learn a lot.
One thing I noticed almost immediately was that when folks messaged me to let me know of an error, they were always unfailingly polite about it. In one instance I learned that the surnames "Hoar" and "Eure" are unrelated. I had stacked up quite a boatload of presumed Eure ancestors, with one unsourced leap to someone named Hoar (a known ancestor of mine). The folks gently explained to me that despite about 95 percent of the Internet claiming that Hoar and Eure are just variant spellings of the same family name, it isn't true. And they offered information that made a very convincing case for those two families not being related. This was a good example of how many people creating family trees just copy stuff from other people's trees without checking sources. In my earliest days I too was guilty of that.
Since people set me a good example with their politeness, when someone went in and changed my third great-grandfather (for whom I had sources) to someone else, on the basis of just a couple of Findagrave profiles (which are not always reliable), I politely referred him to the sources I had tracked down for my ancestor, and asked if he had any other sources for the other guy. I didn't think he would, because I had searched as exhaustively as I knew how and didn't find any. I never did hear back from him, and I changed everything back to my real ancestor. I also put an "Important announcement" at the top of the Notes section of my 3rd great grandmother's profile (as she was the one who was alleged to have had a different husband) explaining briefly how I arrived at which man was my true 3rd great grandfather. I requested that if anyone had reliable information to the contrary, they should contact me.
All that to say, the Wikitree family is (with a few rare exceptions) a great group of people to work with. I've asked a ton of questions on this forum, and other members have taken the time to find answers and get back to me. I've learned a lot in the process, and I'm not making the mistakes I used to, but I still have a long way to go before I would dare to think of myself as any kind of expert. And I've actually been able to help a few people along the way, folks who asked question I actually had answers for.
As others have said, you are of course free to step back or step out... but I just wanted to tell my own experience, because if I can get past the learning curve, anyone can!
