A lot of low-code solutions aimed at collecting and reporting on data are based on streamlined versions of the workflows from old-world DBs like this (and, later, Access): Define your data, define how it is joined for reports, drag-and-drop form/table designers of varying complexity for data entry. So the UI is likely to feel similar unless/until someone comes up with a genuinely new paradigm for this sort of thing. Some are a bit more spreadsheet+transformation based, but that is the "define data & connections" part and once you add custom forms for easier data entry you are essentially back to the same place just maybe hiding the table structure less.