What makes long irons harder to hit?

Okay yeah so that’s a good comparison. So it’s more about weight (during the movement) and taking more effort and direction to compensate against the additional forces.

Pass a bit to technical for my approach to golf. Don't honestly believe it is just in the mind either, I think the people who say it is, must have repeatable swings, which I do not, I could launch the same club 10-20 foot lower or higher than normal and strike it randomly over the face, without even trying. With those kind of variations in launch, it makes a small low lofted, long shafted iron like a 4 iron, almost impossible to hit consistently, especially off the grass.

TBH I gave up on anything 6 iron and above, long time again and went to a 9 wood, 7 wood, 5HL wood, 3HL wood setup. Done wonders for my game from 165-220 yards. Have tried a number of times since hitting low irons again, but don't get the low irons flying nicely, so tends to be low flight, bad strikes, lots of run and dispersion off the planet. Use what works I believe.

Have been trying a high lofted M1 hybrid in the last few weeks(its a no 5, 24 degrees lofted to the max, so 25.5?) , that has a shorter shaft, definitely easier to hit the middle of the face than the 7/9 wood, but don't like the flight on the hybrid(far to low with lots of run, like a long iron, left/right dispersion similar to woods). I think front/back dispersion is more important, so the hybrid with loads of run, wont be making my bag in comps. I am a fairway wood person I have decided