There are incrementally useful, but the current crop will not disrupt the demand for senior engineers, especially at product-focused companies or high-scale com

There are incrementally useful, but the current crop will not disrupt the demand for senior engineers, especially at product-focused companies or high-scale companies. It may cause some disruption in line of business apps or demand for developers for internal applications. The thing is, CRMs have been taking over this space for over 2 decades already and many have companies have already adopted these tools. Products like Salesforce, Dynamics or ServiceNow are very popular at non-technical companies, and they can just hire a few people through the vendor's professional services if any deeper customization or support is needed. I have deeply reviewed PowerApps, Mendix, Outsystems, Pega, and Budibase. Despite what the vendors promise, this is more evolutionally than a revolution. Most still have serious problems at scale, and model driven development proves to be quite difficult for almost everyone. It's just not clear what value this provides: a typical CRM or BPM stack is better for semi-techincal users; programming languages are better for truly custom applications.