Agreed. My start as a professional developer was an internal tracking tool that started as an Excel spreadsheet, which I turned into an Access database... added

Agreed. My start as a professional developer was an internal tracking tool that started as an Excel spreadsheet, which I turned into an Access database... added numerous VBA macros... once I'd hit that limit I created an entire frontend in VB.NET, which led me to C#... I've left it all long behind now, but those were some great building blocks. It was around a decade ago, and when I left the company they had announced plans to replace everything (my code included) with SAP. Last time I spoke to someone there (about three years ago) that plan has still not been completed.