Dan Bricklin himself said in an interview (I think this one [0]) that when they created VisiCalc (the first spreadsheet program) with Bob Frankston, they design

Dan Bricklin himself said in an interview (I think this one [0]) that when they created VisiCalc (the first spreadsheet program) with Bob Frankston, they designed it to mix data and non-data. It was entirely part of their vision of a malleable information space. Of course at some point of using it for everything any tool become the wrong tool, but most of the time users creating sophisticated layouts in a spreadsheet actually use the spreadsheet as intended in the original, powerful vision of its inventors. [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ryIxvrX4lyk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ryIxvrX4lyk