I also struggled and quit after 10 seconds or something not getting onto the island ^^
I don't remember struggling with it much as a kid tbh.
I've thought about what I used to do with computers before and realized I used to have way more patience with them than I do now. I remember suffering a lot of the stupidity in qbasic and Turbo Pascal when I was 11. I don't think I would tolerate that today. Lego island seems similar.