I think it's great to see the commoditization of solved problems.
On the other hand, I'm not surprised to see developers hating on the idea because our industry has spent decades telling everybody these are difficult problems and they need to hire experts to help solve them.
I had to fix a SharePoint workflow that indefinitely kicked off several workflows, and each workflow kicked off other workflows all being stuck in loops. A single workflow could have thousands of workflows kicking off...
Guess who they let make something that simple? Some generic business analyst who left and nobody else knew how to support it.
That second last word there is why developers will never go away.
Sure, but there's some kind of survivorship bias there.
For every "app" like that, which grows up and needs support, there are dozens of others that serve out their usefulness and go away, or just live on in obscurity in some person's personal workflow.
And generic business analysts are hardly the only ones who write bad code...
That's because business analysts don't get to touch code because they don't know what they're doing. You give every generic Business Degree holder access to visual studio and make custom apps and suddenly 5-10 years down the road companies will be relying on a sole piece of terribly optimized, unsafe, and security prone software that hackers globally will have a wet dream over.
This isn't just an "Oh developers trying to retain their jobs" rhetoric. This is a "keep power tools away from children" concept. Not saying Comp Sci degrees are terribly hard to acquire, just that there is a reason those people went in and got a Business degree and not a hard science degree. It's typically because they wanted the easy way out.
