Meh, now they can impress with something cooler.

I spent so much of my youth building things that were far beneath what I wanted to be building because it took all my time/energy/attention/expertise to build the lesser thing.

It's a far better deal to saturate your time on the high-level stuff building the ambitious thing you really want to exist. e.g. https://www.gamedeveloper.com/design/-quot-the-door-problem-...

But the energy and effort you put there made you learn all those things. Also gave you some satisfaction as a reward. I’ve never oneshot games in an afternoon, but I remember really well the thrills I had when I learnt how to open the first TCP connection in Python.

We’re entering into a new era of mankind. With good and bad consequences.