I find DVORAK is much easier than QWERTY.
I’ve tried both. While I don’t find any speed advantage to Dvorak over QWERTY, I find that there’s less strain on my left hand.
The reason I don’t use Dvorak, tho, is that re-mapping the keyboard makes using Emacs nearly impossible. I don’t think of what letter I’m typing for a particular command in Emacs, I just know muscle patterns to do some editing function.
I really depends on what you were trained on. I had to learn to type on a manual typewriter, then got immediate experience on an 029 keypunch! So I can do 40-50wpm without any problems on a QWERTY. People who are brought up on DVORAK become just as good.
You gotta remember what the QWERTY was created for, and what was learned back soon after it was created. It was originally created with the idea that it would slow people down so the mechanisms of the time wouldn’t get jammed up. Didn’t help in the least. People get trained on it - and they become proficient.