I think it’s easier for us to say when we grew up with the stack. In the old days you could pretty much understand everything on your computer in a relatively short period of time. So as a learner it was all so accessible. These days it’s hard to even know where to start.
Yeah, true, it probably helps to have grown up alongside the tech itself.
I'm not sure it was more accessible though. Learning programming back then was really hard. Nothing was user friendly and achieving even simple tasks like drawing a diagonal line might require you to sit down and learn Bresenham's Algorithm (from the books neither you nor your library had copies of, naturally...). So it was easy to get discouraged. You can get fun and relevant results much faster now.