[itsoktocry]

>This is elitist and frankly, unhelpful. The answer to a skills shortage is not a practitioner lockdown, but policy, training, guidance and mentoring.

I think the point is that these tools have their own learning curve, and non-tech business people are not doing it well, either; how much different is it from learning SQL? Which one is more broadly valuable and transferrable as skill?

If this is the career you want (data or data-adjacent), why not just learn SQL? There are far more learning resources and the value of the knowledge will assuredly outlast any low-code tool.