Yeah, I hear this a lot, but that really does not make a lot of sense. I hear the same for wysiwyg builders, CMS and 'codeless/lowcode' platforms, but they are

Yeah, I hear this a lot, but that really does not make a lot of sense. I hear the same for wysiwyg builders, CMS and 'codeless/lowcode' platforms, but they are all alive and kicking despite programmers thinking that it is much more easier to whip up something with Rails/Django. Those platforms are very far removed from 'the normal user'; you cannot just install ONE (!) installer file and then open a visual drag & drop editor and whip up what you want. In the worst case you have to install several things and some of this need to be configured; you already lost 99% of the business people there. You forget 'little things' like; they have to know html/css/js as well, or at least know how to add and work with Bootstrap. For business use you need Bootstrap controls; you need to know how to add and integrate them (people are not going to understand what it means to just 'bind to the onclick event') while in the before mentioned packages that is jut drag & drop. Installing new controls is too. Then, if they got as far that they run into having to securely deploy it somewhere. It is all just too hard. The web made them less used, but not because of Rails/Django, but because they are, legacy wise, less well fit for the web, but there is still a huge market for them and there are more and more appearing that solve some of these issues for web and definitely quite a substantial group will choose them over hiring 'real coders' to make things quickly. There are plenty of web shops (with big clients) doing their db work with Filemaker (and Filemaker does support web).