Is it common for a 5/6 year getting a bath to turn into screaming match every time?

I have a question about my family.

There's this five year old that, every time he gets a bath from his primary caregiver, always ends up with a screaming + crying match. The kid cries when soap gets in his eyes or the water gets hot suddenly or something random like that, and refuses to follow instructions like "wash the soap out of your hair ... no like this .. watch me ....".

This is a well behaved, lucky kid in most ways and the primary caregiver mostly does a very good job, but things seem to go south during bathtime. I think the adult should just quit making bathing so hard for the poor kid and if the kid can't get the soap out of his hair, just pour some water over the kid's head instead of making bathing a screaming match every time. the adult in question says i have never given a kid a bath so i don't know what i'm talking about, and it's important to him the kid learns to bath himself and that most kids hate baths.

from my own childhood, I do remember crying in the shower when soap got in my eyes, but that's it. I never had grown-ups yelling at me. Is this the exception or the rule? Is it true that most every kid has a hard time getting a bath?

I've offered to have a go bathing the with the kid and make it fun but my offer isn't taken up on it.

Also what ways can bath time actually get the kid clean and not turn into a screaming match?