I think it is really, really hard to get the scope of a no-code or low-code platform right. If your scope is too narrow, your users will hit a wall where they cannot implement the feature they want ("I like the default search-feature, but I want my results sorted by length, not by date - sadly there is no option for that...") and if your scope is too big or too customizable, you need to be a programmer to understand/use it and might as well use [Your-favorite-language].
Joel Spolsky's "Leaky abstractions" (https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2002/11/11/the-law-of-leaky-a...) fit that problem nicely. And I have no solution to offer for that...My problem with smartphones in that context is that (at least for me) it is very difficult do efficiently interface with them. You have rather limited space to display information ("Code-Blocks", your Program-Flow, Debug-Info, Output) or to input information (only two thumbs/drag-and-drop instead of all my beloved keyboard shortcuts).
So I agree: To make that viable, there has to be a rather big paradigm shift, either in the way we interface with our machines or in the way we write programs.
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