Someone suggested I go to Airtable after getting frustrated with the query options in Excel on a personal project, in lieu of using a full database. It was a s

Someone suggested I go to Airtable after getting frustrated with the query options in Excel on a personal project, in lieu of using a full database. It was a spectacularly bad suggestion; Airtable seemed to require the same sorts of weird support columns and formulas as Excel in order to support multivariate queries. I came away thinking it was just a pretty browser-based spreadsheet toy, and not a thing useful for actual work. I'm still baffled by the love. (And I went on to use Pandas/Jupyter Notebooks/Python for my project.)