D&D first impressions and ageism

Last week I had my first D&D session, and yesterday I had my second one. Two completely different worlds. I always consumed a lot of content related to RPG, played a bunch of RPG games and games that really simulate a D&D table well like baldur's gate and divinity original sin, I watched Vox Machina and Mighty Nein, so I've always appreciated the RPG world but had never actually played D&D myself. I think that's only because the opportunity didn't appear before and I didn't have the urge to search one myself. This year I really wanted to try D&D for the first time, especially after watching Mighy Nein, I was crazy for a session. My friend found one and invited me, but unfortunately it didn't go so well. It wasn't bad, I would say it was ok, but something really bothered me for the entirety of it and my second session just made me sure what it was. One of the problems was that I felt like there were too few people. There were 2 other players beside me and my friend, and the DM. The…