The scratch and python support are very welcome additions. my father still has the EV2 laying around here in the house even tho no one has played with it in the past 2 years.
One of them is Dash, from Wonder Workshop. The other is a Jimu BuzzBot from UBTECH.
It's incredible how fast the novelty of these wears off.
The BuzzBox we used it exactly once. Dash has seen a lot more action, but only because there are several apps with different ways of using them (One of them is a Scratch based app) and my daughter likes to use it as an RC car, plus some other fun things like sound recording.
Anything that doesn't have an open way to program them, in my opinion, are not more than rather complex toys, that do not give more entertaining that a box of Legos (As a matter of fact, I think there are not that many toys that can give as much fun and entertainment as a box of Legos - unless there's fire involved).
While the mindstorms block coding is different to scratch or makecode, I find it pretty easy to do anything I want with it. And there is plenty of example code on the internet for those looking for something useful.