Excel is sui generis - it is the end-user-programming platform that lived. But even Excel formulas are a textual programming language, and the really hairy Exce

Excel is sui generis - it is the end-user-programming platform that lived. But even Excel formulas are a textual programming language, and the really hairy Excel spreadsheets spill over into VBA (a "real language" for these purposes, and one whose ergonomics still blow the web out of the water). It is tempting (albeit a bit snobbish) to think that "CRUD apps", as a category, have so little logic that you can describe a useful working version without code. I just don't think it's true - they are always shot through with squirrelly business logic. You can carve off products like form builders (eg Google forms/Airtable/etc), but anything you'd describe as a "CRUD app" contains an amount of logic that's just painful to describe without code. (And the form builders know it, which is why they don't support those use cases!)