Trying to build an AI chatbot without coding was way harder than I expected

I thought this would be a quick weekend thing… it wasn’t. Goal was simple: just create a chatbot for free to handle basic questions. I went through a bunch of tools people recommend as “best free AI chatbot builder” or “no code AI automation platforms” and honestly most of them fell into two categories: either not actually free after a point or way more technical than they look I even tried following a couple tutorials on how to build an AI chatbot from scratch and still got stuck half