There's something missing between block based coding and Python. Something recducing cognitive load, minimal tooling, minimal amount of special chars, espeically to get started. (think Katies speech).
steve jobs quote: "learn coding to learn thinking". coding teaches rigorous thinking. getting it all understanding it deeply. it also is a fantastic tool for creating and it teaches prototyping and building from small working things and expanding on them. (observation on Mali compiling after only a few little lines, agile principles in the small). The art of making is applicable to any creative endeavours, music, cooking, etc.
Stay true to coding principles (0 based arrays etc), guided by go. Evy is a strongly typed, proecdural ... language. influenced by go, python and basic and easylang. Others: simplify. e.g. only one num type.