Low Code Comprehension Is Magic Beans

The low-code/no-code sales pitch: "Anyone can build apps!" The reality: only the person who dragged and dropped those 47 interconnected workflows understands what's happening under the hood. Six months later when something breaks, you're staring at a visual spaghetti diagram that makes regex look readable. The "citizen developer" who built it? They moved to marketing. Good luck maintaining that proprietary logic locked in a platform that costs $50k/year to license.

Low-code tools promise democratization but deliver technical debt with a prettier interface. Sure, anyone can make it work once. But debugging? Scaling? Understanding the abstraction layers? That's where the magic beans turn into a beanstalk nobody wants to climb.