This is like a movie you know 2 minutes in, is going to be a complete disaster, give it another 5 minutes and finally turn it off. You stumble upon it's imbd page some time later to discover it has a 3/10 rating and nobody went to see it.
I don't see a single innovative idea in this product and I see plenty that's worse than the experience I had in Dreamweaver in year 2000.
This looks similar to Airtable, except Airtable UI seems nicer. Airtable is a Billion dollar company, tons of people are happily using it.
I am no fan of Amazon, but I do not think it is as bad as you describe. Even if it is half as good as Airtable, this will take off, simply because of Amazon's weight behind it.
I agree, the users of Airtable love the UI. But it's mostly individuals and small companies. Airtable isn't practical for enterprises with its 50k row limit and extremely limited permissions.
With Honeycode being an Amazon tool, I would expect their targets are more enterprise. But even this tool is limited to 100k rows, so until that changes, this can't really be used at scale either.
There's still a gap in modern database apps combining scale, granular permissions and something made for non-technical users.
It's about as useful as amazon web services are, for 90% of the companies that are going to get rid of their infrastructure and become completely dependent on amazon for their business to continue functioning.
These little creepy 'useful' products are just vendor lock-in, the same way those creepy Internet Explorer-only features were 'useful', and forced the whole goddamn web development industry to complicate their tooling and made testing and providing the same experience across browsers a goddamn nightmare for decades (is it still ongoing? I thankfully escaped hell that is modern web development).
I'll probably be on my deathbed by the time these old idiot governments comprehend what these creepy IT companies have been up to since their inception.
I don't see a single innovative idea in this product and I see plenty that's worse than the experience I had in Dreamweaver in year 2000.