As someone that started developing on Roblox relatively recently (about a year and a half now), I can’t agree more with you saying that it’s been pretty difficult to get quite good at. I started off with a good amount of programming knowledge in other languages so I wasn’t a complete newbie to the concept, but the lack of Typed lua and good documentation at the time made it pretty difficult to learn the right way to go about doing things.
Sure, individual functions and methods might be easy enough to find on the devHub/wiki, but the tutorials there are sparse and don’t really line up together to create anything that anyone can work from. Code snippets in some wiki pages are getting better so you can at least get an understanding of how that all comes together, but you’re still going to be left with writing a hot mess of code that runs at 10 fps just because you put a while loop in every part to constantly make them rotate. (Physics is worse we won’t go there)
But even then, you’re right. You can still jump into a baseplate, you can still use 6 bricks and make a car. There are games on the platform right now that get hundreds of players that are nothing but a looping dance animation, looping music, and a transparent baseplate; and that’s fantastic! Sure they may be silly but this platform is both a fantastic one to create on once you get a little experience under your belt as well as go and jump into a silly game with friends.
It even has some of those advanced features to help us create some pretty amazing games with completely custom everything without expending years of our lives with development teams ranging into the hundreds to produce a game for people to come and enjoy.
This platform opens boundaries for people, lets them experience things they otherwise never could, and all while doing that allows dynamic communities to form. It helps the young kid wanting to play a game on their parents’ iPad, all the way up to the college student like me looking for something to get their mind off of school, and even beyond that in some instances. It also opens doors for people outside of the platform through things created on the platform. Recently some of my code that I wrote on Roblox was submitted in my scholarship application for University and I earned that scholarship. I can say, even with the numerous issues I have with the platform, that this platform is fantastic for everyone; regardless of your age or place in life.