Quite possibly, though I never really saw any true use of the 2D space, it was either just 1D structures lined up next to each other so that you could see them

Quite possibly, though I never really saw any true use of the 2D space, it was either just 1D structures lined up next to each other so that you could see them simultaneously, or a frustrating 2D mimicry of an actual database with sorted fields and the like. I'd really like to try Pandas or similar, that might also help a switch to 2D :)