I wore the blasted hard lenses for the better part of 35 years, then went "cold turkey" without them one day never to return. (I couldn't afford the soft lenses needed for my type of correction.) You definitely need to be able to touch your cornea (gently, and with clean finger!), so you might want to practice that without a lens until you're comfortable doing it. I found that minimal fluid helped with the placement, just enough that it stays on the tip of your finger. Try really hard not to look to the side as your finger approaches your cornea as well, otherwise you misplace it, get to dig it out and try again. Keep plenty of sterile fluid around to help with redness and irritation, and don't use any fluid that might have gotten contaminated or is old.
I have narrow eyes, i.e., they don't open fully without extra fingers helping. This always made placement difficult, and the traditional means of popping a hard lens out (pulling the eye corner) didn't work for me. Early in my career when I misplaced a lens I immediately went into the "dig it out" mode and the technician commented that she was glad to see I was not afraid to touch my eye! How true that turned out over the several decades of experience...!
I does "get easier with time"...more as a result of necessity. You'll do fine with them, but good luck anyway...!