The widespread use of the Excel grid layout may explain why people seem to have a high tolerance for improperly-sized UIs. Personally it drives me crazy to see

The widespread use of the Excel grid layout may explain why people seem to have a high tolerance for improperly-sized UIs. Personally it drives me crazy to see things truncated all over the place, peppered with useless empty cells, for no reason other than “somebody shoehorned this sparse data into a grid and never looked back”. It’s like people just don’t see how much time they’re wasting constantly doing a mental reconstruction of their poorly-described data because they can’t SEE most of it. We really need better tools.