Well, that's what I'm doing when I use lex :) .

I'm retired, so maybe not up to date, but every time I looked at a tool for non-programmers to make applications, there was something I wanted to do with it but couldn't figure out how to do. My first encounter with spreadsheets was in the mid-80s: the secretary to the president made one to track all the WIP in a small mfg co. Admirable and put together more quickly than I could have done with the available tools (Fortran & ISAM files & a stunted interface for data entry & report generation). But if she hit the wrong key the whole thing would have been borked.
Questionable in the articl:
Have programmers started looking down on DBAs? I worked with one who could solve problems that were a total mystery to me.
Have some decided database design has become so routine that it commands no respect??

Before the raid they were planning to put out a new version of Triplanetary. They got distracted. I still miss it.