"When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure."

Goodhart's law strikes again.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhart%27s_law

However, what is meaningful is whether something is able to create usefully adjacent output, like "let's make Minecraft, but with marching cubes, subdivision surfaces, and global illumination... and behaviorally accurate pandas..." (or something like that).

I have an 11 year old, and most of his game ideas are adjacent to other games he's played. He can make those now, or, at least, enough that he can see where it works and where it doesn't.

Compared to a few years ago, that's pretty cool.