Are there mechanisms which make learning programming significantly easier which don't have marked limitations? (e.g., the limitations of BASIC (esp. early imprlementations) vs. C)

I find it striking that this article references

Brooks, Fred, No Silver Bullets, IEEE Computer, vol. 20, no. 4, 1987, p. 10-19.

but doesn't cite one of the more notable responses:

https://drdobbs.com/there-is-a-silver-bullet/184407534/

where that language (Objective C) coupled with the NeXT libraries/objects made possible Steve Jobs' "5-minute Word Processor Demo"

Do Swift (and SwiftUI) change this calculus?