I had a long written-out response but actually fuck it.
This argument is dumb. No matter which you learn on, you will have advantages and disadvantages and have to learn how to expose, work with light and compensate. It's also a fucking joke how
>>2617815 attempts to assert that you couldn't do something similar with a digital image. "Oh, this photo is so dreamy, because it has all these filmy properties, you could NEVER do this with digital even though you clearly fucking can" and I'm NOT saying it would look exactly like film, for those of you who will choose to be obtuse.
This is just someone masturbating to their preference of film.