I think it's fine to use low-code specifically for the lie that the only thing preventing people from writing code themselves is a slick UI.
Sure there exist applications that do equivalent things, but when people start using the word 'low-code' to describe such an application they suddenly get the weird idea that the hard part of coding is typing the damn syntax and that if only you put a GUI in front of it they can do it themselves.
Conveniently forgetting that people have made the exact same promises about the first IDEs. Pretty sure there's an ad to that effect for Turbo Pascal somewhere.
Sure there exist applications that do equivalent things, but when people start using the word 'low-code' to describe such an application they suddenly get the weird idea that the hard part of coding is typing the damn syntax and that if only you put a GUI in front of it they can do it themselves.
Conveniently forgetting that people have made the exact same promises about the first IDEs. Pretty sure there's an ad to that effect for Turbo Pascal somewhere.