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Eh, Apex certainly isn't amazing (and the debugging experience is absolutely awful) but the limited code I have to maintain in our org (where workflows and other drag-and-drop tooling weren't sufficient to get the job done) has been quite easy to develop and maintain.

Problems usually come from trying to make applications that aren't well suited to the Salesforce platform work on it natively - it's great for CRUD apps with workflows, a custom visualforce page here or there and some more complicated logic implemented in Apex sprinkled in - but if you are resorting to Apex to do the majority of your work you are likely using the wrong tool for the job.