> if they're persistent and patient enough to see the result of what they think they want and iterate enough times they'll eventually learn

beats the point. a non-coder has no reason to learn. they know the domain (atleast some) and they will not learn anything outside of it.

without learning how the program works, youre stuck. the real world is too complex and cant model 1:1 in any programming abstraction. the domain behavior must be forced and coerced to map and reduce with artificial constraints to operate as required in code but rule out absurdity (a bank account with a burger in it).

sure everything need not be production grade and multi user and infinitely secure but nothing meaningful comes out of leaving the modeling rigor out of that exercise.