I miss the 1980's. If I recall correctly, Raskin conceived the Macintosh as a computer that was easy to use for ordinary people yet also incorporated the means for ordinary people to program the machine. The solution was to make it easier to program. (Something that was added as an afterthought to Jobs' re-envisioned Macintosh with Bill Atkinson's Hypercard.) The general view was that those who used computers should be creators, not just consumers.
Contrast that to modern computers. While most can be programmed by the end user, the entry points are rarely obvious. The vast majority of languages that are easy to learn are regarded as learner or toy languages. Many of the professional languages are several orders of magnitude more difficult to use than their equivalents in the 1980's (often for good reasons, but it doesn't help the cause).