Learn? Really?
They're games. Let them pick the game they want to play, or let them choose a different game entirely.
This is like seeing "Should my child learn Java or Python?"?
I'm really questioning the "nation of coders" that big tech is envisioning. We don't need a country of people programming full-time.
Get your kid a chemistry set.
Some years ago I wanted to buy one for my nieces and nephews. The only one I could find had on it, in bold letters, "No glass! No flames! No hazardous chemicals!"
Yeah...no fun, either.
Grandad's had all the ingredients, and told you how to make, a couple explosive compounds.
Dad's had the ingredients, but not instructions.
The most dangerous thing I could do with mine was probably eat the copper salts.
Boom, and "die aarde maak rooibek oop", like that old Afrikaans poem said...
Translation: The earth opens its red mouth (due to the red coloured soil)
I probably wouldn't have become a Nobel prize winning chemist with my n00b/safe set but it might have set something off.
Think about sports. Are there more people that are bad at skiing in Austria compared to the Netherland? Yes (if you don't count the ones who never stood on skies). Are there more good skiiers in the Netherland compared to Austria? Absolutely not.