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Software engineering is better understood and commoditized. The dangers of poor no-code solutions is also now well recognized. If you have the budget for an in-house IT team, then having custom glue software is perfectly viable. Or you can pay for Airtable/Zapier or RPA tools. Ad-hoc solutions provided by the OS to automate desktop software just doesn't make sense in a world dominated by cloud services with APIs readily available and cross-platform desktop GUIs that don't follow platform conventions. For niche software like CAD and EDA, vendor lock-in and deplatforming certainly should be bigger concerns for users but there simply are not enough suppliers. It is difficult for small players to break the inertia of vendors that predate the modern internet and who had established customer relationships before the SaaS model was even a glimmer in the Salesforce founder's eye.



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