I was a FileMaker developer and I wouldn't say that. The way to develop on FileMaker is to be an expert of workarounds that would stun an outsider.

It was a good data processing tool in earlier versions. I always liked its splash screen picture of v4: a file cabinet of the size of an office building. It was a very good metaphor. But even then there always were rather hard and strange limitations of what you can do and the main skill you developed was to invent a disgustingly clever way to overcome them.

(Example: sometimes people want to sort entries in a pop-up menu in a custom way, but there is no built-in capability to do that: the entries are always sorted alphabetically. So one of "solutions" is that: you give each entry a prefix that consists of zero-width spaces. First entry gets one space, second two spaces, and so on. As a result when they are sorted, they are sorted by that prefix, but since the prefix is invisible, the user only sees the entries themselves. If you are careful and lucky and the users aren't too inventive these spaces won't contaminate the data, although generally contaminated data is the normal state of most data in FileMaker.)