Comment by apsurd

I've always stubbornly bemoaned how everyone seems to love to work in spreadsheets. Undeniably the world's power-tool.

I've never liked them, never learned to work with them, and instead spent 20 years learning to program and make my own db-backed crud interfaces.

Your points are spot on. But I'd like to defend a sliver of my stubbornness about it all; a product built for a specific use or domain exports the _education_ and information architecture of that domain. Sure it's all rows and columns in a db, and a spreadsheet is just that exposed to the user, but a "product" and its creator/company gets to design and prescribe a learning experience. And I think that's the magic and the value. That's what I'm holding onto!