[chitowneats]

Rational non-technical business users are exactly the reason we need open source tooling.

What rational person would build the foundation of their business on a closed source, proprietary web development framework? Only the less experienced or less than rational would choose this setup. We have decades of evidence that companies that develop these will inevitably:

1. Not support the use cases your business needs as you grow, despite your pleas.

2. End support for a necessary feature that you need. If you're lucky, you can continue to operate on an older version or a fork. But then you don't get any new functionality going forward.

3. Simply charge you more.

4. Go out of business.

There is a niche in exploiting the naivete of such business owners. That doesn't seem to be the goal of Budibase given that you can always pick up where they leave off in any of the above scenarios.