Yes, if he/she was using it for that (kid projects, Scratch, etc.) it would have been the right tool. Maybe it's because she skipped all those steps in his/her IT education is the reason he/she is having troubles now.
I learned about the devicetree on a RPi too, but I didn't complain about it in a blog. When I bought my first RPi I expected to encounter problems and learn a lot from solving them. In fact, I expected it to be much much worse - so much worse that I even bought the RTC module even before the RPi arrived in the mail. Why didn't he/she think of that? It's because he/she is lacking the basics, the kid project with gpio leds and i2c sensors.
