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I guess it is quite normal situation, it usually happens me when i read editorials of Codeforces div.2 C/D problems. I suggest to try harder problems that require more out-of-box thinking like div.1 C/D and try problems from different judges(preferably atcoder.jp).

In my opinion, when you read a problem and find a way to solve it, that's because of your reflection. You have this reflection by having long time enough solving some similar problems before. When you meet a hard problem, you spend a long time to think about it, but can not find the anwser, i think that because you just try to solve it by your current reflection. So don't feel sad when you can't solve a hard problem. It's just because you don't have enough reflection (knowledges) for it, not because you're weak and you can't use what you read in the tutorials. So you should practice something new you have learnt, again and again to improve your reflection.

Use your eyes maybe, they are there for a use. Hope this Helps! :)

I feel the same, I'm worried if this is the right way to do it

If you cannot understand the editorial, read the comments. Sometimes 1 paragraph comments are 100x more helpful than a 3 paragraph editorial.

Also, many times, the ideas that are used in an editorial may not be used together as a whole "package", but they may be dissected and used to solve sub-problems of "new" problems that you solve in the future. E.g. I once used MO's algorithm with updates to solve a sub-problem that would otherwise require segment tree with treap.

This blog is 2 years old but here goes nothing:

To be honest, I don't think this is the right question to ask, you are not to blame for not being able to understand the editorial. The majority of the editorials are really hard to understand because the authors most likely assume that the reader knows some piece of information and therefore decide not to explain it well or even mention it AT ALL, the authors are also not to blame for the quality of the editorial as I don't think they get paid much to write lengthy editorials where every step in the solution is thoroughly explained.

Thankfully there are those people who devote some of their time to carefully re-explain a solution in the comment section of the editorial, which I assume you already know of.

I am also having same question

It would be great if editorials had hints and the actual editorial in separate spoiler tags. I feel you tend to learn more in this hint based approach. This also helps in understanding the intuition behind the solution better.