I was worried about this for all of 3 seconds. However, autonomous is just a little part of the game that rookies can get into now. 15 seconds, big deal. I think it's good to have something happen in the first 15 seconds now.
The real reason I'm not worried about rookies having this capability though, is because my team spends a lot of creative effort on designing and programming the drive system. Until FIRST supplies code for our particular flavor of omnidrive, I still get to keep my "job".
Scripting is not the answer to all programming problems. Teams with experienced programmers will still have an advantage over those that don't, but you'll need a pretty good programmer to have an advantage in autonomous mode.
Oh, and writing HTML isn't programming.
(though at times, it maybe just as frustrating)
Yep, I'm elitist enough not to worry.