AMA with Bubble's co-founder Emmanuel

Agreed. That part was extremely disappointing, especially in a world where people like @georgecollier are actively filling major gaps with tools like BuildPrint.

When a third party can repeatedly build essential infrastructure that becomes widely adopted, that’s a signal it belongs in the core product. Relying on plugins and 3rd parties indefinitely feels like deferring ownership of critical capabilities.

Another moment that stood out was the framing that visual building is the future and the alternative is “semicolons and if/else statements.”

That’s a false dichotomy (and a dangerous one).

The alternative to visual building today isn’t raw syntax. It’s structured systems and tooling that abstracts syntax away entirely. Serious builders haven’t been thinking in punctuation for years. They think in architecture, state, and deterministic behavior.