There's this weird schizophrenia around this in the software world.

In the past I have had people here suggest they're just writing boilerplate CRUD software, and I've suggested that means they could just use low code tools instead. They then suggest it's too complex for that to work.

I think we tend to view ourselves as just hooking together basic operations, which might be technically true, but that becomes complex very quickly. A product can be built off of straight forward REST and database operations, but take you months of learning to get up to speed on.