To be fair, there has been a lot of complicated stuff to know/fiddle/find out to compile even a hello world, especially on windows (I guess?).

Skillsets skillsets, when the darn thing needs jre older than the one you have installed or tiger.dll is missing, what do you do ... ?

It's always easy until it isn't, and todays youth is probably more tech savy than what my peers was back in the nineties.