That's probably a bit extreme. I think you are basically right as in terms of as a career, but quite a few popular games are also simple.
With one of the extremely high level applications you could easily create a pretty little platformer, or a thing too close to puzzle-bobble to share.
With a normal language you could do something that was even more yours, at the cost of time/quality. Unless you can think of a real gimmick, you and your family will be the only people who care about it, but they are all the people that matter [so be a bit realistic and do it for fun].