I really love these stories - as a contractor who fixes the badly implemented shadow IT crap

aaaand let me guess? have they assessed whether this tool needs backups? monitoring? resilience? patching? obviously in 5 years time the author would have left leaving NO documentation on a mission critical 'small' app - likely hosted with a shit ton of other mission critical crap

It's MS Access all over again, my future rates are looking good

seriously it's like going back to the 90's

Yup. So many bozos giving those of us that know our asses from our heads job security far into the future. Yeah it's gonna suck to actually do the work a lot of the time, but the irresponsible generating insane amounts of tech debt that people that know what to do is a tale as old as the outsourcing craze and codeless tools, and frankly, probably COBOL.