I think a lot of the things that separate successful/productive people from non isn't skill it's desire. Why don't people make their own board games? Because

I think a lot of the things that separate successful/productive people from non isn't skill it's desire. Why don't people make their own board games? Because it's not the programming part that's hard, it's the game design part, and some people have a creative impulse to do things and some people don't. A big part of the reason people don't becomes programmers isn't because they don't want to memorize all that weird syntax, it's because they don't want to sit inside a room, staring at a computer, writing programs. Within reason (there are some counter examples to this) but having to develop a skill to accomplish something can be a good differentiator into the kinds of people who will have the passion to stick with something and the kinds of people that don't. Sitting down to learn Python is the easy part, if you don't have the patience to learn python, you probably don't have the patience for game design.