I believe the writer is comparing local visual workflow programs against local Excel workbooks, that is: personal productivity tools run on a users local machine. This is a very important distinction.

The value prop of these "Low-Code No-Code" platforms has absolutely 0 to do with the actual "user/developer" experience being better/easier/more powerful and everything to do with the orchestration, inheritability, visibility, management, and security capabilities that these platforms provide. If I have 5 artisanal, bespoke Excel workbooks that my "developer" accountant runs locally to complete a part of a critical business process (and they invariably do) then I have 5 ways my business can come to a grinding halt when any number of things happens to that accountant or their computer. I would take 50 less powerful, rickety RPA workflows that I can at least see in a control room over those 5 Excel workbooks any day of the week.