[jf]

> I get the sense the end goal here isn't in productivity but more for education and creating environments that foster a programming mindset and/or nourish more emergent creativity from being able to code at a higher level

While those uses are certainly easy to see and imagine in Dynamicland, the mission statement for Dynamicland is to "incubate a humane dynamic medium whose full power is accessible to all people."

The researchers at Dynamicland take this mission statement quite seriously and are making a new medium. Like any medium, this one isn't explicitly limited to one kind of use.