Why should we believe someone who was so extraordinarily wrong about no-code before?

That's the path I've been on with my Dropbox alternative [1]. The 80% is the fast core that focus on file management, the remaining 20% is coming via plugins which implement one of core interfaces so you can handle your own authorisation, endpoint, authentication, custom apps to handle file types, patche the frontend dynamically to add your own behavior, ... Fun fact, there is 10x more code in the various plugins [2] catering to everything than the core code that was supposed to be the 80%, unsurprisingly everyone needed a different 20%

[1] https://github.com/mickael-kerjean/filestash https://github.com/mickael-kerjean/fdrive

[2] https://www.filestash.app/docs/plugin

Agree with this approach. Am building tools around the same concept 80% solid base and rest of for the custom business logic. https://github.com/GoPlasmatic/Orion