I found the same. Then I watched kids using it by following instruction sheets, picking up the concepts, tweaking, making their own projects, and moving on to P

I found the same. Then I watched kids using it by following instruction sheets, picking up the concepts, tweaking, making their own projects, and moving on to Python. I got to understand Scratch by learning how kids use it. It’s just a mindset and expectation shift that is similar to that I experience when learning anything new. When I first learned a proper functional language after years of imperative. When I used a game dev environment that does lots for you.