I tend to agree. The worst offenders are the drag-and-drop "code" editors, plain english programming languages, etc. I actually thought Blockspring was kind of

I tend to agree. The worst offenders are the drag-and-drop "code" editors, plain english programming languages, etc. I actually thought Blockspring was kind of cool but then discovered an amazing and amazingly under-publicized Google Docs feature: you can attach and run JavaScript against Google Sheets including URLFetch. Makes for an excellent API runner for massaging data and all sorts of things.