I mostly agree with you. As an independent professional, I hate complete ecosystem platforms also. We need composable systems. Not more locked down. Mendix (ht

I mostly agree with you. As an independent professional, I hate complete ecosystem platforms also. We need composable systems. Not more locked down. Mendix (https://www.mendix.com https://www.mendix.com) does a lot of that well but as you pointed out it's proprietary. If we look at history, successful predecessors like C, Java and Python (sorted by difficulty) are all open standards. I think the next low/no code platform to open their specifications wins the race. Disclaimer: I've worked for Mendix.