This is definitely an underappreciated thing. There is no reason an awful lot of programmy stuff can't be automated away using gui doodads that morons can use.

This is definitely an underappreciated thing. There is no reason an awful lot of programmy stuff can't be automated away using gui doodads that morons can use. The entire UI profession of hand coding up HTML and javascript on an electron (or web; whatever) app is a total make-work program: this problem was solved decades ago with drag and drop gui tooling. Most of EC2 type stuff could be drag and drop; drag and drop works fine on other platforms. Something like Labview applied to common devops workflows could be an extinction level event for a lot of people on HN. People have no idea how bad interfacing equipment to the outside world was before Labview. I think the only reason tech like this is kept out of the current year is the popularity of open source software. The first company to adopt it will slay on labor costs.