I don’t think someone with lego in mind could have come up with minecraft. The problem is that there really isn’t an interface for building with Lego freeform

I don’t think someone with lego in mind could have come up with minecraft. The problem is that there really isn’t an interface for building with Lego freeform that doesn’t suck for new users. Not many people are willing to get good at something like that for purely creative reasons. Minecraft works because it’s limited to 1x1x1 bricks. The interface you can make with such a restriction is significantly better. But I don’t think anyone thinking about lego would have seen that as an acceptable trade off before minecraft.