When I was a kid you had to copy #BASIC games from the back of magazines, with 5000 POKE statements, the syntax never matched your computer's BASIC and it was all gone when you turned off the computer (no tape recorder)
Now you can just copy paste OCR'd text from a PDF into ChatGPT and ask it to translate it into python and kids don't even take the time to do that.
Just look at the mess people wrote because they didn't have a `dict` datatype
https://mattfife.com/special/cia-game/BASICFunWithAdventureGames.pdf