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Blog post argues that creative limitations spark more engagement than feature-rich tools

A writer known as Dave describes watching his kids become engrossed in a buggy, feature-limited easter egg on a school document platform, eventually crashing the browser, while they rarely stuck with the more robust coding tool Scratch for long. He draws a parallel to visual art, noting that a blank canvas with many options can induce paralysis, whereas scrap paper and a pencil invite immediate doodling.