I might have been a bit unfair in my assertion as I currently know more of Spanish than I do German, but I see what you mean. Gender in language NEVER made sense, and I thought Spanish had it bad with two articles, but German has three!
The issues with German for me come with remembering all of the gender rules for cases. Or remembering the article for every single noun ever. It seems every issue I have with German is tied back to gender.
Meanwhile, English master race just has “the”.
(Good discussion for the Language thread, too)