People think that watching his tutorial and putting in minimal effort is all you need to do. But you actually need to be willing to iterate and work on the step you're going through.

Same deal with that book "Drawing on the right side of the brain", there are people who finish the work book but didn't seriously engage with any of the exercises and still fucking suck cock after finishing the book, and then there are people who seriously engaged with each of the lessons and come out of it with a different like pic related.
If making the Donut taught you nothing, then it's because you weren't willing to learn.