When the machine was first pitched it was as a spiritual successor to the BBC Micro computer - to inspire and create a generation of bedroom programmers.
Compared to the home computers of the 80s, the Raspberry Pi isn't as simple to use, you have to jump through quite a few hoops to get to a point where you can start to code in Python and in my opinion is sufficiently difficult enough to deter the lay person; a little bit more complicated than turning on a machine and getting a BASIC interpreter you can start typing commands into.
In my experience most of the Raspberry Pi community has been more interested in porting emulators and media players, rather than nurturing basic skills in computing for kids. I believe the world still needs a machine to get kids more interested in computer science and away from the spreadsheets and word processors, but I don't think this is the machine to do it.