[resoluteteeth]

What's weird is that microsoft had a fairly sophisticated crud application generator in visual studio for a while called Lightswitch but I guess it was slightly too geared to end user programming for developers to be interested, but at the same time, being in visual studio it was a non-starter for non-developers, and they ended up killing it. (And now they are instead pushing Power Apps which is part of office 365 and not based on .net)

[politelemon]

Lightswitch was also based on Silverlight, which was a momentum killer for its adoption. It also didn't help that it was discontinued just a few years after its release, and went into 'support mode'. I believe the team developing it just got folded into other parts of the org.