It doesn't have to be a huge crumbling pile of debt. It's just a tool that can be used to create useful applications if used in the right way. I think of it as

It doesn't have to be a huge crumbling pile of debt. It's just a tool that can be used to create useful applications if used in the right way. I think of it as a visual IDE to build opinionated apps, i.e., visual ruby on rails or visual django. It will significantly improve your productivity on repeatable tasks (crud pages, domain model to tables, querying, etc), and you can usually add custom coding for those things that aren't handled by the low-code platform. Or you write a separate service for those parts and call these through REST.