pert:
That must be why Arduino has been such a huge failure with people new to programming. Oh wait...
As long as you don't say ALL the people new to programming who try it because I don't see near 100% success on the forum but then I've only been here 5 years now.
By your "how many people" metric, BASIC has been an astounding success.
By what I've been saying, 20 or 30 hours with interpreter line-number BASIC can get fundamentals down that I've seen more than a few newbies with more time miss.
Take a break, sheesh.