I teach robotics courses and we also prefer blockly based languages for our projects aimed at kids. I don't understand people that think "real programming" need

I teach robotics courses and we also prefer blockly based languages for our projects aimed at kids. I don't understand people that think "real programming" needs one fighting with syntax when the semantics are hard enough for the untrained. And a visual programming language the syntax is usually either obvious or impossible to get wrong. We're using the OpenRoberta Lab, which supports actual robots as well as simulation.