As I understood it the goal of Looker isn't to make the lives of people who can use something like Shiny better but rather the lives of people who use pivot tab

As I understood it the goal of Looker isn't to make the lives of people who can use something like Shiny better but rather the lives of people who use pivot tables 99% of the time. So rather than having technical analysts making dashboards you have business analysts making dashboards (or at least digging into generic dashboards).