I didn't dislike node red, but it didn't really fit my use case well. I wanted to use it as a REST service to write APIs for clients to use to generate reports from our various databases. Basically a low-code data pipeline from cassandra, mongo, sql, etc. It worked...but things like switching git branches while keeping things running, updating the service, aggregating results, etc, were difficult. More difficult than just writing the code.

I wrote one then never used it again opting for node instances inside of our Kubernetes cluster instead.