All those tools you talk about still need to be maintained. Anything built for "non-programmers" as you say, is also many orders of magnitude more complex, and

All those tools you talk about still need to be maintained. Anything built for "non-programmers" as you say, is also many orders of magnitude more complex, and at some point that complexity will grow to a point where it is cheaper to replace the whole system entirely rather than upgrade. API's and stuff are easier on some level, but distributed systems are also much more complex. Upstream API's change, or get EOL'd or change license. actually, instead of listing all the reasons : every point you made is just going to end up with more software being developed. it all feeds into itself. endlessly.