Comment by TeMPOraL

> So many companies (including mine) built software to replace spreadsheets - but of course spreadsheets are great because you can do anything you want.

This is doubly ironic, because so, so many companies would be much more useful for the customers if delivered as a spreadsheet file for download.

I know, I worked for one too; said so in the meetings many times, especially watching the frontend side screwing up tables in SPA so they would choke rendering couple dozen rows of numbers.

So much time, effort and money is spent on designing subpar products and services, where spreadsheets would do better, simply because the value of using a spreadsheet goes 100% to users, and it cannot be that users reap all the value of their work, without a host of businesses capturing most of it along the way.

The whole point of replacing spreadsheets with a SaaS is usually to lock-in a specific "user journey" and force users to follow it, and this rarely if ever serves the user.