In principle, at least for business applications, the middle ground is something like low code - data access, UI, user management, authentication, logging, auditing, ... all taken care of already, you make the data model and business logic. In practice this works up to a point, when you have requirements that do not fit the model or capabilities that the creators of the platform had in mind, when you have to start fighting the platform, then you are right back in wtf code land. When you decided which platform to use, you of course evaluated this and made a good choice, building the first version worked nicely. Now you have a running system and want to extend it, now you are getting the more unusual requirements that were not important for version one and therefore not taken into account when making the platform choice, now your nightmare starts.