There are quite a few "boot to basic" comments here, but one of the things I think they are missing when suggestions like "you can just have rpi start X,Y,Z at

There are quite a few "boot to basic" comments here, but one of the things I think they are missing when suggestions like "you can just have rpi start X,Y,Z at boot" or "use W,R,S in your browser" come is that when you have something like ZX Spectrum or C64 it was a static platform for 5-10 (and now upto 30) years, so there was no "oh, you can't DL jquery so your fancy webthing broke" or "you'll get to your IDE soon but first java updates, apt updates, chkdisk, fdisk, or something else that needs to pop up in your face", and of course no other kinds of distractions like "bah, my game doesn't work, lets zone out on youtube lolcats or play $random_FPS instead" to take up your attention.