I actually don't mind that. If you do this stuff every day, you learn to appreciate having proper tools. I had my first programming experience on a commodore 64

I actually don't mind that. If you do this stuff every day, you learn to appreciate having proper tools. I had my first programming experience on a commodore 64 in 1987. There was nothing to choose for me. It was Basic or nothing. I probably had more choices but since I had no way of learning about those I really didn't. I had that machine, a manual, and some printed material my uncle gave me, a tape drive and about six tapes with games on them. That was it. My local library was useless for learning more. I had few friends and none that even remotely understood anything about computers. I had no modem or any form of information other than what came with that computer. So setting up the development environment was: turn the thing on and start typing. Everything you needed to know fit in a very thin manual. These days, there's a lot of stuff to deal with of course and a lot of choices to make. New developers get overwhelmed with choices and material to read that they have to cherry pick from. However, there are plenty of ways to get started and helpful people that will help you to get started both with active support, tutorials, documentation, etc. Not having any of that is not better. I too feel nostalgic sometimes but the games were meh, especially after playing them too often and Basic wasn't that great either. I've seen high school kids get into machine learning and building games with unity. 2022 is an awesome time to start learning how to program. So much to learn. So much to explore. So much to do. The only limitation is your own creativity.