It's an accessible scripting language designed for non-technical users.

Which is obvious. What's less obvious is that a good accessible scripting language for non-technical users renders plenty of inaccessible programming redundant. So in the bigger picture it's much less tiring than the alternative we have today, which locks users out of all but the most trivial and useless DIY web publishing.

Hypercard could easily have become the foundation for a different vision of the web. If it had, the current shitpile of competing frameworks, languages, levels of concern, and so on would have been hugely lessened.

It’s arguably easier to remember, the way a speaker of a Romance language can more easily pick up other Romance languages.

And it’s also easier to read if you’re not an expert on the language.

I think something like this has its place. I found it very empowering as an 8 year old kid.