I wouldn't suggest choosing your editor based on which one you think will be the easiest to learn; I would suggest you figure out which one you think will serve you best over the long haul based on how deeply you think you're going to be taking your photography and photo-editing. Unless of course you relish the idea of learning one software application, discovering its limitations, getting frustrated with it, giving up on trying to make it do what it was never designed to do and then having to learn a whole new, more sophisticated application. But, if that's your thing, then by all means.I am new to photo editing and am looking at Photoshop products.
Which is easier to learn with Lightroom or Elements I shoot in both raw and jpeg and would be using ACR as well