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To be fair, every modeling tool had terrible UX at that time - save for some domain-specific ones (e.g., NI had a great tool, but it only worked with their hardware components).

If those advocates were sellers, then they were all proposing this as a panacea - and no tool is a panacea. Anybody who promises to solve all your problems is selling snake oil.

Which is also a reason your are seeing more textual front-ends for UML.

Actually, ERD are not specifically supported by base UML, but an approximation can be done using class diagraams and, with a little specialization (profile) the rest of ERD can be …

I would say it really depends... There are UML diagram generators with whcih you might want to integrate (e.g., PlantUML) that would meet the needs of someone creating documentatio…