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Welcome to the TAC community!
What you’ve outlined is completely normal. I had never had any experience with the guitar until I started with TAC, and I found it extremely challenging at the beginning. You’ve gotten some great advice from others.
What I would like to add is that if something isn’t challenging then you won’t get better. If it’s too easy then it doesn’t give you something to work towards. Guitar is a difficult instrument, or a challenging instrument, but you can learn to play the guitar. It takes time. It takes patience. It takes effort at the beginning. It seems daunting and frustrating.
But I always tell people don’t give up until the miracle happens. That miracle may take a while to happen. I almost quit at the end of two years because I was frustrated. I could play. I could play some songs at that point, but I felt things were very challenging still, and I felt others were leaps and bounds ahead of me. I was actually going to meet a few TAC members for a three day jam, and I knew I was out of my league. I got a list of the songs that were suggested, and I practiced as many as I could over and over and over and nowhere near perfect. The jam wasn’t great, and I left early. But when I got back from it, something clicked and all of a sudden I just took off in my playing, in my learning and it’s still like that a few years later, I’m not a great player and I’m OK with that, but I can play a lot of songs. I play for the sheer enjoyment for myself. It’s my happy place.. That’s my motivator. You need to find what motivates you and you have to remind yourself often, while you’re playing and then you have to just put 1 foot in front of the other and eventually all of a sudden it just takes off.