I haven't used the LV version used by Lego and I haven't used previous versions of Lego software, but I have been using LV as a programming language for some time and it's much more easy and fun (for our purposes) than C, for example.

It also happens that my company teaches a simple mechatronics-style course in a local school to 13 year olds which are not into computers and we use LV as the tool for that. These kids, which are now free from the need to know that "If I don't put a semicolon there it won't work" or "Oh, I forgot to free the memory and my program crashed" can write programs which actually work.

So, what's so bad about LV?
And why does it turn EEs into zombies?