Today's kids also play Roblox, Garry's Mod, Minecraft and Fortnite, all of which allow them to create their own games and tools and write code alongside it, like Verse for Fortnite [0], LUA for Roblox [1], IDK what language it is but there's something for Minecraft bedrock edition [2] and of course the old Java edition, and also LUA for gmod.

This is how thousands, if not millions of people will have their first foray into coding, and it's a much, MUCH larger amount of people that get in touch with the deeper levels of tech than "our" generation had.

Don't underestimate "this generation"; don't generalise them either by trying to state they only spend mindless time on their phone.

[0] https://dev.epicgames.com/documentation/en-us/uefn/learn-pro...

[1] https://create.roblox.com/docs/luau

[2] https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/minecraft/creator/scriptap...