If you don't learn, you can't understand. If you can't understand, you can never learn more complex topics needed for decision making. Responsibility and trouble finds you and punishes you if you don't make informed decisions and execute.
Managing people, raising kids, dealing with immoral business practices, standing up for yourself, healing from trauma, improving mental wellbeing, becoming physically healthy, the list goes on of complex things you need to be informed on when they come knocking. Others live anxiously when they find themselves trapped becsuse they avoided the truth.
So... Trade in immediate anxiety for future long term anxiety I suppose. Not dealing with it now means a mountain of trouble down the line in my opinion.