No-code is rarely cheaper — it just moves the cost somewhere you don't track.

No-code is rarely cheaper — it just moves the cost somewhere you don't track.
The pitch is "skip the developer, save money." Then you stack a builder subscription, three plugins, a forms tool, an automation platform, and a membership add-on — and you've rebuilt a CMS at $300/month with five vendors who can each break your site independently. The dev cost didn't vanish; it became a recurring tax plus integration fragility you can't refactor. Cheap to start, expensive to own. Run the 3-year number before you call it savings.
Agree? Or am I wrong?