Why is it so hard in baseball to beat the shift?

Question

Baseball just outlawed the shift, and people opposed to that will always lament “why can’t they hit it where the shift isn’t?”

Obviously, even for professional hitters, this is hard. Why is that? Does it have to do with the pitch type and pitch location? If not that, is it something else other than batter handedness and tendencies?

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