Agreed. I would also argue that spreadsheets serve much of the role that HyperCard was trying to, including many of the problems that a world built on HyperCard

Agreed. I would also argue that spreadsheets serve much of the role that HyperCard was trying to, including many of the problems that a world built on HyperCard would have had. Enormous democratization of computing for the use-cases that can be understood without programming skills, and also enormous amounts of fragility as applications are cobbled together from loose components.