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You should try picking with your left hand if you think picking is easier. >

Relatable. I once had a cast on my right arm but reused to stop playing guitar. Mistake. >

Because the hand that's strumming is the hand that's creating the sound. Is this that hard of a concept to grasp? >


Is this that hard of a concept to grasp?

Is not being such a condescending prick when you speak too much to ask? >

Picking is the driving force behind playing the instrument, and it actually is more difficult and much more nuanced in most situations. Especially playing the acoustic guitar, which globally is much more common. Your fretting hand only has to learn a dozen chords while your picking hand has to have the timing, rhythm, up and down picking coordination, palm muting, how hard or sofly you strike a string, tremolo and sweep picking, etc. Don't even get me started on people who pick with their individual fingers. Like yeah uf you play thrash or power metal (like I do) there is an argument that fretting becomes substantially harder, but those genres are such a small percentage of the global playing community, and also such a small sliver of the historical usage of the instrument. It makes more sense as is. >

I play classical acoustic, and am left-handed, but play "right-handed".
The left hand still seems more difficult to me.
If nothing else, the frets are in different places, whereas the strings are not. The left hand requires "stretch". When is the last time you were worried about right-hand stretch?
A dozen chords? The left-hand variety is a million times wider than right-hand variety. The left hand also has to have rhythm, timing, movement along another axis, and also is used to mute. >

This has already been decided, you're just confusing everyone now. We all decided long ago that right-handed means the right hand strums
I also disagree that the fretting hand is doing the harder job >

wait a second so if i fret the guitar with one hand and strum with my right hand does that make me ambidextrous? >

No.
Dexter means right hand. Ambidextrous means you have a right hand on both sides.
Just the opposite of "two left feet". >


why is it designated that the plucking/picking/strumming hand is the hand that the playing should be called by?

because it requires more precision in your plucking hand than it does your fretting hand

The fretting hand has the more difficult task.

maybe if you are playing green day power chords