The snarky analogy doesn’t really really work because plenty of people actually do credit video games for their successful career, myself included. Thanks, Roblox.
And plenty of great authors start with fanfic. Like actually. But apologies the snark landed that way. I was not intending to diminish people learning via game modding at all.
What I found irritating in the post is the premise that what we put in front of kids should be judged by counts of attributions to career success.
I'm guessing that Roblox will be responsible for more people learning programming than essentially any other single entity