This is another way of phrasing everything I said....
Caren's tutorial is a level 2/5 difficulty and yours is a 4/5 difficulty. I'd like to come up with something that is essentially 3/5 difficulty by combining some elements of the more difficult one into the simpler, strumming one.
“Often, what seems like an impossible climb is just a staircase without the steps drawn in.” Robert Brault, American Operatic Tenor