100% Agreed. My first language was LibertyBASIC. It had everything a kid could want to make a paint program that had (at the time) more features than MSPaint, or whatever little game. Menu bars, undo/redo, dialogue windows, panes, sprites, sound, etc.

Compared to the effort:quality of something like tkinter, LibertyBASIC put it to shame! Not to throw shade, tkinter is perfectly fine but I don't think I would have cared for it at that age.

It also taught me how to pirate software, when I found out the borland compiler required to make .exe's I could give my friends was $200 :)