Minecraft has a smooth path of discovery from starting out punching a tree to building a computer out of redstone.

A self-propelling path of discovery, creation, play.

Not serious or goal oriented or over-optimizing.

Here are your things, and here's a crafting table to create more things that can be used to make more things, a combinatorial explosion of possibility that smoothly reveals itself to you.

Never feeling taught, feeling a sense of discovery.

A concept that would be cool: Minecraft for your data.