I've tried to buy into this philosophy and ecosystem in my company (I'm the CTO). We have a lot of inneficient processes and I thought that by creating a few fl

I've tried to buy into this philosophy and ecosystem in my company (I'm the CTO). We have a lot of inneficient processes and I thought that by creating a few flows as an example and giving some training to business people they would become automators. I was wrong. For starters, my company's business people are not curious. This is not necessarily bad, but curiosity is a powerful accelerator for programming and automation tools. They weren't impressed nor motivated to adopt and extend the example flows. In the end, I had programmers creating flows for business people to use, and it was frustrating for the programmers and an uncertain black box for the business people. We even managed to create custom connectors to simplify a few flows. It failed and we gave up. Regarding the specific tools of the "Power Platform", Power Automate has a horrible UI. It's slow, clunky and buggy. Sometimes you try to save your flow and it will give you a weird error. Then you refresh the page, the flow remains exactly the same, but now saving works. It's messy. Power Apps has a bizarre billing/licensing issue. The idea behind the product is appealing, but when you start using it, it's a weird mix of a no-code design app with some legacy Microsoft Dynamics app. User management is confusing and tied to Dynamics. "External" users will cost you a lot more in licensing. You keep bouncing between old Dynamics pages and newer Power Apps ones. Even if you want to pay for the highest tier, it's incredibly difficult to find out how to do it. And if you don't pay for the highest tier upfront, Microsoft will create limitations for you on every corner (like accessing a database or using a given widget). I didn't have any motivation left to try Power BI, but one of my interns told me that a _viewer_ of my dashboards would also need a license to have access to it. I won't revisit these tools anytime soon.