I remember the 90's when "visual coding" was going to be the rage.

I worked at a place where a bunch of non-coders started writing apps and tools using what was in retrospect basically a dumbed-down Scratch

Every other day some co-worker would come to my desk and ask for help. Debugging those fucking pretty graphs of programs took 10x the work of just writing the entire simple tool from scratch, esp using fancy new object-oriented C++.