Agree 100%. In one sense, the barrier to creating and distributing software is lower than ever before… but in another sense, it's much higher. Pre-teen me would have had a much harder time grokking the modern web tech stack or Unity than learning how to make basic animations and games in either of those two apps.

Sure, the runtime sucked. But not in any way I cared about as a kid! Plus, this is a hypothetical scenario, so we can have it be good :)