Obligatory rant from me:
Database development *is* easy. Developing databases well is not. You have to know what you're doing and this takes time. You have to apply yourself to learning about it. You have to care that you are doing a good job, rather than simply care about getting the job done.
I give, as an example, the last database that I received from our developers: all of the string fields were nvarchar(max). All of the numeric fields were int, even the primary key for the languages table (which will hold 4 entries). I am, at least, thankful that it had foreign keys. The database won't be big, I was told, it doesn't matter.