It's amazing that a person would want to do more work for a computer, rather than the other way around.

> Historically the 4GL/nocode/lowcode movement has been a miserable failure

Because they were created by people with no imagination, to fit into a paradigm that is inherently flawed but makes lots of money.

MS Publisher was created 32 years ago. It still works great. Anyone can sit down and create and share mixed media by pointing and clicking. But all the techies in the world can't fathom how to make the same exact thing work over a hyper text protocol. Because they have no imagination, and prefer to play with their legos rather than make useful tools that regular humans can use.

The only reason web pages are so complicated is the simpler and easier to use solution isn't sexy. Techies want their tech to be complicated, because they like all the bells and whistles and knobs and syntax and grammar and frameworks. It gratifies their need to keep reconfiguring their legos to make new toys. They like the ego boost of believing that all this is necessary and they are some kind of geniuses doing great work. When really it's all just a poorly designed layer cake of crap that keeps them in money to buy more toys.

It's like how cities are full of streets designed for 2-ton balls of steel and wire and a continuously exploding mechanical machine. The city's design - and the vehicles - are needlessly complex, expensive, and resource-wasting. But we don't fix it, because fixing it is more work than maintaining the status quo, and there's money in the status quo.