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by ivix 895 days ago
The opinions of developers about low code solutions are not very relevant.

Low/no code solutions exist for when there isn't enough time or budget for a developer created solution, which is to say, pretty much all always. In the real world of business problems, almost nobody has access to a professional developer.

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Maybe I'm misunderstanding your comment, but typically companies have teams (architects, developers, etc.) on staff to help solve business problems.
Sure, but they are there for the /big/ problems. The myriad of small real-life problems that sometimes are solved by an intern with Excel and VBA are way too small to get handed to the professionals. Those things that would cost just 2 developer days are never handled (because the dev org doesn't keep a bench of developers sitting around for these small one-off tasks and thinks in multi-year projects).
Why would you assume this? The company that I work for (~ 1000 employees) has one part time employee who manages sharepoint. Any new software we wanted had to go through the procurement pipeline before we discovered we could use powerapps without asking anybody's permission.