I drew a line in the sand some months ago, and it was we will not turn our product into a spreadsheet. But when customers need certain capabilities, sometimes

I drew a line in the sand some months ago, and it was we will not turn our product into a spreadsheet. But when customers need certain capabilities, sometimes the "obvious" solution looks exactly like a spreadsheet, since we deal with sets of related, domain-specific lists. Those are always product-breaking, lazy-minded solutions that in the long run won't serve the customer well and generate mountains of technical and UX debt. Like a "miscellaneous" category for UI actions, they indicate a shortage of insight and imagination.