Imo the biggest issue with these no-code architects has been that you could become one without ever having coded at any noteworthy level of skill (which meant most of them were like this).

In my experience, in a lot of organizations, a lot of people either lacked the ability or the willingness to achieve any level of technical competence.

Many of these people played the management game, and even if they started out as devs (very mediocre ones at best), they quickly transitioned out from the trenches and started producing vague technical guidance that usually did nothing to address the problems at hand, but could be endlessly recycled to any scenario.