These are the original low-code tools. Easy to pick up and your average citizen developer could figure it out with some trial and error. So much lost productivity due to whatever happened in the next several decades.
The biggest problem is that it's just impossible to use modern coding tools with them. If we could fix that, so much would work better. Even the best efforts at it haven't really worked out, since there are some truly sprawling VBA codebases out there (tried Rubberduck with a big MS Access app for a business - reliably crashed it).