[rajinl]

I worked for a startup that built a no code platform. The experience you had, was the same experience that the majority of our customers had. Its a general problem with low code. We tried to make the software easily extendable so that developers could refactor away the complexity, by easily adding new tools to the design surface. The approach worked quite well for internal projects, but was at odds with the marketing approach to the product, so it was never pushed to clients. Clients were sold a utopia of business analysts dropping some components onto a designer and hey presto. Low code can work, but in the same way as traditional dev, where code should be refactored into components that's are easy to reason about. The problem is that this is hard to sell. There is a very nice balance to be had with combining low code with traditional dev. Its just very hard to find that balance. Its far easier to write good code in a traditional language that in a low code environment. If you add to that the expectations created from low code demos, its mostly a recipe for disaster.