In my experience, these tools are sometimes a fantastic option for developers to alleviate some of the burden of managing infrastructure and code. But I've rare

In my experience, these tools are sometimes a fantastic option for developers to alleviate some of the burden of managing infrastructure and code. But I've rarely seen a powerful solution which can be used by non-developers; either because the tool is powerful, but complex, and thus the same skillset it takes to be a developer ends up being necessary to interface with the tool, or because the tool is integrating with systems/APIs developers wrote, and it takes a developer to understand how to handle that interface. But I think they're really cool none-the-less, as a developer. I can build a modern react web application with the best of them, but I still pay for a squarespace personal site. At work, we use a ton of zapier and retool; when the problem space fits, its just less dev work. But the devs are the ones who do maintain it, at the end of the day.