Well, put yourself in the shoes of someone who knows nothing about programming and googles what you described. They'll be flooded with information that they can't really make sense of. What language do I choose? I want to make games! So is C++ the right one? Can I learn another one?

Look at the questions in beginner forums. The naive, seemingly stupid questions. Many beginners struggle to understand what a language is, and how languages are related. To many a programming language is a series of magic incantations that make the computer do stuff. They treat it like spells.

Then, if you do manage to get over that hurdle, you'll have to put in quite some time to get anything useful out of your code. You'll have to bang your head at many hard surfaces, read tons of unrelated crap because, once again, you don't even know what to google.

I don't know, if you ever worked with complete novices. People who want to learn, but know next to nothing. Where I live, you can do apprenticeships for software development, and I had to guide a few of our apprentices. At that point I had been programming since 14, had programming classes in school, master's degree in CS and several years of work experience. So I was very much removed from being unknowing. Being confronted with the utter incompetence and lack of any context of these guys was extremely eye opening to me. Those were bright, motivated younglings, but everything that seemed obvious to me, was completely beyond their capabilities.

In short: you may underestimate the difficulties to learn without guidance.

I'm sure its different now from when I started - because coding is very popular, and the internet is a thing... But I can tell you, that it took a long time before I knew what a programming language was, or 'coding'... these words were just not familiar to me.

I learnt stuff by just opening random executable files in notepad to see what they look like... mostly it was just garbage that no one can understand - but some of them were readable, and I replicated and learnt from them. (they were .bat files.) I became a bit of an expert in making very fancy batch files. I made customisable menus, and a little adventure game. Then my parents helped me out by buying me a programming book. It was about programming in Visual C++. I was pretty excited - until I quickly worked out that Visual C++ was something you had to buy before you could use it.

Anyway, my point is that it is easy to see what you need from the point of view of an expert; but from the point of view of a novice, you don't know what you don't know. You don't know which words are important, or what anything is called. The first steps are not hard except that you don't know which direction you are meant to be stepping in, or where the starting point should be.

No because most tutorials will start from "write print("Hello World")" and the like without mentioning compiling or where to write it or with what...

I didn't really get into coding until someone guided me through the basics of python, which is an easy language that doesn't even require compiling. One of the reasons was precisely not knowing where to start.

I did not choose to start with VB.net - It was the first thing youtube came up an I think was interesting, because I could start with something GUI.

Today I make enterprise factories go brrr.