I'm having an ok career in this space contorting Excel, Access, SQL, VBA and Powershell. It's going ok, but I do have to point out one thing that this hype cycl

I'm having an ok career in this space contorting Excel, Access, SQL, VBA and Powershell. It's going ok, but I do have to point out one thing that this hype cycle is missing. You are explicitly developing software by people who have never taken data structures, or algorithms or software design. The people developing these tools do not understand what a dictionary is and why you would use it, do not understand when and why you would use memory as opposed to disk, and routinely do things like triply nested loops rather than something sane. And that's before we consider that the tools themselves are nerfed and do not allow you to do things beyond their limits, usually something involving database size. So, yeah, this is going to be a mess. Fight it, fight it hard and this is just another attempt by the MBA class to devalue skilled labor. Call it like it is, and if they built it and owned it, they can maintain it.