I don't need to spend 9 hours watching a video to determine that labview sucks. If it's really that good, its benefits should be apparent right away. Other reasons: (1) It's in no way "open" (2) It's very klunky for doing many things that are a cakewalk in other languages (3) If it's so good, why hasn't it caught on by inspiring (free/open) imitators (4) It's not a good starting point for the budding robotics enthusiast who will later transition into programming PICs (5) "real" languages really aren't too hard for kids.