As an avid childhood fan of Lego, Infiniminer server mods (the precursor to Minecraft) and then Minecraft itself completely scratched that itch for me in a way

As an avid childhood fan of Lego, Infiniminer server mods (the precursor to Minecraft) and then Minecraft itself completely scratched that itch for me in a way that Lego will just never scratch, especially now that Lego is so focused on builder kits and collector items vs what I grew up with. There is absolutely nothing unfortunate about it. Like you said, Minecraft is a better value for the money. And it's also far more freeing. As a kid I've entered Lego competitions via school. Lego Technic kits were amazing, Mindstorms was wicked cool, and I spent hundreds of hours playing the old Lego flash and Shockwave games and generally being a part of the online community. Spybotics: The Nightfall Incident is still one of my all-time favorite puzzle strategy games. But Minecraft still blows it all out of the water. When tedstone was introduced, my entire world opened up. I was implementing clocks, CPUs, registers, screens, not to mention all the standard redstone engineering. The game is very deep and can be very technical. That said, I haven't played it in a decade now. Been considering getting back into it.