I perform software engineering at a research oriented institution and there are some projects I can now prototype without writing a line of code. The productivity benefits are massive
Prototypes are always meant to be thrown away though, someone's going to have to redo it to comply with coding standards, scaling requirements, and existing patterns in the code base.
If the prototype can be just dropped in and clear a PR and comply with all the standards, you're just doing software engineering for less money!
If the prototype can be just dropped in and clear a PR and comply with all the standards, you're just doing software engineering for less money!