OK, fair enough! All of which does seem to paint a picture of a programming environment which is handy for ad-hoc interventions and graphical/audio/video/HTML

OK, fair enough! All of which does seem to paint a picture of a programming environment which is handy for ad-hoc interventions and graphical/audio/video/HTML output but highly unsuitable for organized development of a code base (even a small one), highly unsuitable for systematic debugging, and highly unsuitable for beginners learning to program beyond their first baby steps (as @cycomanic points out elsewhere in this discussion).