The "no-code" desire has been around for decades -- just using different terms. E.g. in 1980s and 1990s, a common phrase for new tools that didn't require programmers was "self-service" ... like Crystal Reports software for "self-service reports without programming".
To put it in perspective, consider that Microsoft Excel is a "no-code" tool. In the old days before desktop computers, if a business person wanted to look at a report of sales amounts grouped a different way, he would ask the COBOL programmers in the IT department for a "change request" and they'd do the following:
- "code" new punch cards for the mainframe: https://www.google.com/search?q=mainframe+punch+cards&source...
- load of magnetic tapes (each held about 40 megabytes) of the sales data: https://www.google.com/search?q=mainframe+9-track+tape&sourc...
- get a new report on greenbar paper: https://www.google.com/search?q=greenbar+paper&source=lnms&t...
Now, any office worker can do the above with a "no-code" tool like MS Excel with pivot tables, filters, etc. Even though Excel eliminates a lot of coding work, the demand for programmers keeps going up. No matter what "no-code" tool is invented, the world keeps inventing new tasks for human programmers to do that today's no-code tool can't do. There's always a delta in capabilities.
