[dtech]

I think you're making the classic mistake of thinking that because your on-ramp isn't available anymore there are no on-ramps anymore.

I read an extremely similar comment two decades or so ago about a dev saying that no-one would learn computers anymore because everyone now used GUIs instead of CLIs...

Yes modding might be harder nowadays, but you have things like Scratch and Hedy, or the freely available Unreal/Unity dev tools with asset stores.