For everyday christians, it was way worse than that. A lot of the crusades were politicians trying to get rid of excess mouths to feed.

If you read about the motivations of each crusade and the journey, not the military stuff… its really similar to the shit politicians do today

Race baiting, elites controlling the poor masses, economic shenanigans, border games, political dick measuring, even brainwashing children’s education

Saying it was muslim v christian is overly simplistic

BTW, I don’t know as much about the reverse, i.e. the muslim takeback and the struggle for the common man living under the muslims. I think a lot would be similar, since economic circumstances were equally shit for everyone at the time, and political leaders are a total crapshot