I will have to disagree with your assessment of Excel. It’s a great tool, especially for those who live in it, and it covers a large area of the triangle but th

I will have to disagree with your assessment of Excel. It’s a great tool, especially for those who live in it, and it covers a large area of the triangle but the start is very rocky. Using it for simple lists of numbers – maybe even with a bit of arithmetic – is indeed easy to pick up. I have, however, seen a lot of casual users of Excel struggle with getting their finished lists look a certain way and with printing them out. I think there is potential for optimization in that area. Still, apps that cover the whole triangle will probably always be somewhat intimidating for beginners. I, for example, like InDesign (Adobe’s layout tool) a lot but it is completely inaccessible to beginners. You basically need to read up on it before you can even start putting the first word on a page, even if you are, say, versed in using word processing software. I think that’s perfectly alright, InDesign is an incredibly powerful tool that doesn’t need to be accessible to beginners.