We may be trading todays restrictive GUI's for badly documented application API's... Actually thinking about fairly advanced non developer applications. Mappin

We may be trading todays restrictive GUI's for badly documented application API's... Actually thinking about fairly advanced non developer applications. Mapping/GIS work is a lot like what you describe. GUI tooling with tool boxes of little functions that you can chain together to get the desired outcome. Though its incredibly complex when you get the advanced use cases, it becomes not dissimilar to regular software development.