Oh, I think it’s quite wonderful really. There are cases where the limited nature of some configuration-based things ends up being a mess (one that comes to mind is a feature in Spring Data where you can extend a DAO bean into a rest service through annotations, but it turns out that this feature (at least when I last tried working with it), is so rigid as to be nearly useless in actual practice. But our codeless application was a bit of brilliance, I think.