I agree. This goes back even further than that. In the 80's various "construction set" programs were all the rage. They were essentially no-code programs, many disguised as games. Later there were 16-bit solutions, like a program called "Can Do" for the Amiga. (I'm not entirely sure of the title, but I remember the splash screen had a voice shouting "I Can Do; you can, too!")

Macromedia Dreamweaver was the big inflection point because the results could be deployed on the web, for anyone to see, regardless of what box they were running.

The problem I have is that it devalues the worth of actual programmers by making everyone think what we do is easy. It isn't. I see this all the time with do-gooder charities on TV "We're teaching kids to code, and next week they'll all be billionaires!" The present themselves as if a week in a makeshift classroom is all it takes to compile and deploy a Swift app.

I've thought about this since the early part of this year when a middle manager in my company's Communications department dismissively told me that she could do my job because, "I know code." What does that even mean?