The criticism here seems to be confusing the idea with the implementation. Maybe this one wasn't well implemented, maybe so far few, if any, such systems have been because it is a hard nut to crack and as is normal, people are still working out how to do it well. But the idea is just another evolutionary step in software development - and 'proper programmers' are naturally very defensive about preserving their occupation. IMHO their arguments against the nocode idea are no different in intent than the unnecessarily convoluted and opaque documents produced by lawyers, for example, to protect their profession against redundancy. At its heart the nocode idea is just another level of abstraction and decoupling, both important principals in software, but the more of this you have, the less flexibility and more constraints you have on what you can do, and that can be frustrating. Horses for courses. And of course any well designed system will lend itself to catering for what might happen in future, because otherwise it will have a very short life!