The obvious observation about Excel: spreadsheets are a highly specialized expert tool for highly specialized expert users (accountants). Most Excel users aren

The obvious observation about Excel: spreadsheets are a highly specialized expert tool for highly specialized expert users (accountants). Most Excel users aren’t; and most don’t even use it for its designed purpose, i.e. user-programmable parallel calculations, but rather for ad-hoc ersatz databases. Of course, said users are rarely any better at designing and using databases than they are at bookkeeping.