> I have yet to see a single "citizen developer" successfully building stuff using low-code/no-code solutions.*
I've seen plenty, in billing reconciliation, marketing, fraud detection, etc. in major telcos. I've also trained non-programmers to do this, with success (even adding enough Python to create custom nodes for scenarios where no prebuilt block is suitable).
Also, plenty (millions?) of citizen developers have built complex "applications" in Excel.
I concur, people can go a long way with IFTT, Tableau, Blockly and services like Octoparse.
For the more creative, there's Cycling '74 Max and Flash back in the day, and I'm sure there are many more low code tools out there that have been stretched beyond their original domain.
I've seen plenty, in billing reconciliation, marketing, fraud detection, etc. in major telcos. I've also trained non-programmers to do this, with success (even adding enough Python to create custom nodes for scenarios where no prebuilt block is suitable).
Also, plenty (millions?) of citizen developers have built complex "applications" in Excel.