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I worked on a SAP project for a Legal Entity Creation/Staff Migration in the HR piece.

Technology wise, it's weird. It reminds me a bit of Lotus Notes, in that everything including the screen layouts are stored in the database.

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Chuck some modern CSS on it, and you could call it "no-code", right?

Lotus Notes/Domino was actually a pretty good "no-code" application development platform back in the day.

Afaik all ABAP code is stored in the database and run from there as well.

Indeed it is. Even when using other development tools (eg, ABAP in Eclipse or the third-party addons for VS Code), the code is still stored in the database and executed from there by the ABAP VM. There's no such thing as "offline development" with SAP ABAP, although people are working on it...

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