* Not a week goes by without news about some tool that finally allows everyone to create UIs easily *
That's because they start at the easy part (the UI) and move down until they hit that this is a hard problem. But there's reason for hope: there are breakthroughs happening in this space (reactive like spreadsheets, declarative like SQL). The results are really exciting.
I am the developer of HiveMind (crudzilla.com), it is a web app platform that aims to tackle web app development in a way that moderately skilled developers could do a lot with.
That's because they start at the easy part (the UI) and move down until they hit that this is a hard problem. But there's reason for hope: there are breakthroughs happening in this space (reactive like spreadsheets, declarative like SQL). The results are really exciting.