Same. I've only ever been a user in Blender and it pushed me to use Python as my first programming language since I could script Blender with it.

IIRC, I first started using it with version 2.32 when I was an early teen. I still have a .blend file somewhere with a textured model of a LOTR Fell beast/Nazgul, that I created painstakingly and cost me some exam points as I preferred 3D modelling to studying.

Good times