the internet's one weird trick

 One could criticize no-code for not offering the flexibility and nuance you can get by writing your own code, line by line. But the truth is, for all the hoopla about Silicon Valley's innovative genius, a huge number of apps don't do much more than awfully simple things. Seriously: Silicon Valley's main trick is just shoving things into a database and pulling them out again. I'm exaggerating, but only a bit.

Clive Thompson in Wired, The New Startup: No Code, No Problem.

 

I think of this quote so often, but was bad at googling about it.

But as frontend gets more and more complicated it seems more and more silly. Still the same stuff but in much harder ways.