Can anyone say what the easiest development platform is to use to write a 2D game that uses code instead of a GUI, has tutorials that don't expect that you know the language/API/environment that well, and is free to use?

I've looked at several, but either I can't develop for iOS/Android for free (beyond the charges to get setup as a developer by required by Apple, Google, etc.) or the barrier to entry always kills my time, then I go onto something else. LÖVE https://love2d.org/ was the only one I actually got anything playable with, but Lua/LÖVE was a little finicky and got frustrating. I want to be up and running and deploying to an emulator with something interesting in no more than 30 minutes, and I don't care how blocky it looks.

Years ago I wrote homebrew games, so I'm not new to concepts required, but I don't want anything too complex.