I agree that perpective matters - what I wanted to say here is that from my perspective the enterprise applications that You are thinking about are like this be

I agree that perpective matters - what I wanted to say here is that from my perspective the enterprise applications that You are thinking about are like this because they are somehow direct or indirect descendants of excels. The proper ones (old school ERPs from SAP, Oracle or MS) would crumble under their own weight if implemented in excel (and I have seen stuff done by "Citizen Developers" that tried to achive just that and it was a sight to behold).