Yes and no. I agree they have it too easy as users. But it is harder to start programming because of the complexity of the tooling. Also, achieving something cool in code can be a bigger stretch than it used to be. When the pinnacle of gaming was a text adventure, a kid could come close to emulating it with a few dozen lines of code. Now kids are playing Fortnight which is not replicable without a large team of coders, artists, and millions of dollars.
