I mean grow in complexity, not scalability. The crux of the issue, and why all of these type things fail to gain enough coverage to concern me, is business grow in complexity. Each. Individual. Business. Cumulatively it's exponential complexity. These type solutions are general solutions designed as one size fits all. In reality, that usually covers small businesses and for a short period of time. All businesses are niche.
Wordpress, Wix, Access, Oracle Applications, etc. were all thought to solve the problem of development expense and they have all failed. I mean they get some coverage, but once a business grows in complexity, they quickly become obsolete, or in the case of larger apps, configuration is more complex and error prone than developing the application.
They probably don't pivot very well either. Maybe Google will figure it out, but I don't think they will.
I don't think that for instance MS Access has failed. It was and still is a very good solution when it comes to creating line of business apps (within days) that have forms, reports and database access (for teams with up to ten members). These teams don't need anything that is more complex than that.
I don't know better solutions for developing RAD (rapid app development) apps for companies who are running on the Microsoft stack and who don't have dedicated dev teams.
Now for them Google App Maker is a very interesting solution.
Actually Google addresses these kind of users explicitly in their early access application form.
I don't think that this platform was intended to replace Frontend Development, React, Angular, etc
Wordpress, Wix, Access, Oracle Applications, etc. were all thought to solve the problem of development expense and they have all failed. I mean they get some coverage, but once a business grows in complexity, they quickly become obsolete, or in the case of larger apps, configuration is more complex and error prone than developing the application.
They probably don't pivot very well either. Maybe Google will figure it out, but I don't think they will.