I've only played with Access once in Uni so it's a bit hard to compare for me, but it sounds pretty similar. I use it as my own version of Shadow IT for my wif

I've only played with Access once in Uni so it's a bit hard to compare for me, but it sounds pretty similar. I use it as my own version of Shadow IT for my wife's business when im just too time constrained to make her proper web apps to do stuff, and she's too reluctant to spend any money on things, I just whip up a solution in Airtable. She has a CRM I made her for managing her students and their balances. Works well and was super fast to put together. It's pretty crazy capable as Airtable has various kinds of built in functions for math and string manipulation, plus it can do various kinds of relations, joins, aggregates and rollups. Heck the resulting table even exposes an API! The only thing I can't really seem to do is business rule validation stuff that a typical CRUD app would contain.