[liamkinne]

It feels like LEGO for a while have been dumbing-down their education products.

I saw it with computer science education as a whole during my schooling. Instead of focusing on fundamentals there was more and more layers of abstraction added, lying to you about what you were actually learning.

There is also another competitive event that will be affected by this: RoboCup Junior.

[FinnKuhn]

This competition was my first experience with programming, but from what I can see RoboCup Junior is still thriving - just with different products controlling the robots now.

[watwut]

LEGO are fundamentally toy company. You cant really compare it to a school.