A great starting point for a young developer.
So much of the early computer world was getting data in databases and spreadsheets. Covers a significant percentage of usecases (and still does with stuff like SharePoint or even SAP).
It was an awesome time. Folks laugh at all of the tech now, but QuickBasic 4.5, Turbo C++, and dBase were amazing tools for building stuff that was very cool at the time.
Businesses have managed to fill this with some (sometimes crazy and fragile) uses of excel, the larger with over complicated ERP and entprise systems, and what not but the late 80s and early 90s were the hayday for the best tooling for this sort of thing. The Golden Era for the hacker sort, building a quick and effective system without anything fancy or boilerplate or requiring the equivalent to a CS degree.
The software that makes software without having to fully know programming has always been the pipe dream product I guess. Many have failed down this route.
The sort of incentive where every simple CRUD app eventually turns into a CMS. Or how B2B software just becoming data managling pipelines (like Zapier), each slightly customized for every industry and plugging into their wider system. There's probably a few small set of archetypes all software fits into, these being two I've come across most often in my career.
There's always plenty of overlap at a high abstraction like that with all of these apps, but the devil (and money) is often in the details (ie, making it accessible and relevant to their business use case with proper sales, documentation, and design).