Remember when Visual Basic was making everyone a programmer too?
(btw, warm fuzzies for VB since that's what I learned on! But ultimately, those VB tools business people were making were:
1) Useful, actually!
2) Didn't replace professional software. Usually it'd hit a point where if it needed to evolve past its initial functionality it probably required an actual software developer. (IE, not using Access as a database and all the other eccentricities of VB apps at that time)