As an analogy, getting into medicine isn’t easy, but exercising to improve your health is. (I know this doesn’t hold true for everyone. For instance I have some complicating health issues, although hopefully you see my point.)

I think the equivalent here is something like:

    stuff = requests.get(“example.com”).json()
    print(stuff[“thing”][“I”][“want”])

It’s technically coding, is pretty easy, and potentially beneficial to your life.

Same with Excel macros or whatever.

Maybe that person will have a fire lit in them and pursue a software engineering career. Maybe it’ll just be a script on their desktop that cleans up screenshots.

I don’t find that implication insulting even though I’ve spent (now) the majority of my life honing “coding” as a skill.

It’s a mountain to climb, but the first few miles have some pretty nice vistas.