It's a common mistake to think that "programming" is an activity that merely describes the act of writing code. Yes, there are plenty of non-programmers (as in

It's a common mistake to think that "programming" is an activity that merely describes the act of writing code. Yes, there are plenty of non-programmers (as in: people who are not identified as programmers by their job title or self-description) who program (including creating amazing monstrosities in VBA). Describing what a programmer does as "writing code" is only accurate to the same extent that what an accountant does can be described as "putting numbers in spreadsheets". Yes it may be a part of a typical professional's daily work, but even if it is a necessary part (which can be argued), it's not sufficient. Programming involves a lot more than just writing code -- and that's precisely the part you can't replace by creating a more approachable programming language and what I mean by "learning to program" being what non-programmers typically don't want to do. This is why "thinking like a programmer" is a thing that is separate from "learning programming language X".