Similar background in metaCASE! My feeling is that its decline was at the expense of the IDEs and another developer-centric tooling (not in the early days open

Similar background in metaCASE! My feeling is that its decline was at the expense of the IDEs and another developer-centric tooling (not in the early days open source, but latterly), and not a bad thing. Too often the tools became the focus at the expense of both less abstracted solutions and the real business problem. In a related field, process frameworks are today’s version of that problem.