People definitely use this idea of choosing boring technology to justify the use of visual languages and/or domain-specific tools when building systems, instead

People definitely use this idea of choosing boring technology to justify the use of visual languages and/or domain-specific tools when building systems, instead of general-purpose programming. Lots of people might say go for FileMaker or Access over writing your own lower-level JS & SQL, if you want to generate a site or use a database to generate any kind of automated report or output.