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Visual studio also largely trended towards an MVC model + ORM which made implementing forms on a front end an absolute nightmare and led to a lot of security issues, poor usability issues, and lack of agility in changing and updating complex forms with conditional form logic etc. Not to mention that user security integration using identity providers is also an epic headache.

There is a middle ground, and that’s why low code / no code is so popular. Often a business does not need the full flexibility and nonsense that comes along with something like that.

Horses for courses. If off the shelf drag and drop helps you build enough to get your idea up and running and start using it / making money, then that’s far better than being lost neck deep in a code pile and not getting up and running. Once you’ve got the funds, then look at transitioning.