Historical research is the easiest out of all kinds of research.
No existential crises over imagining novel theories, concepts, methods. Simply tracing a genealogy of the past. Cumbersome and tedious yes but not anxiety inducing since you are not inventing anything.
Doesn't require any courage, you are not taking any stance, any hypothesis on what can/could/should exist just following what has already happened.
To me it sounds like you’re taking a superficial view of what historians actually do. It’s easy to miss what is difficult about other people’s jobs.
For example, they need to generate a narrative out of facts. That requires creativity. A bunch of receipts, letters, photos, newspaper articles, etc. don’t just arrange themselves into a narrative. I think there are probably historians in archives asking “What on earth do I say about all this???”
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