Everybody who replies to you, I think, has gotten it wrong. What you're asking is not why any grid, but why an infinite un-malleable grid. What you want is the

Everybody who replies to you, I think, has gotten it wrong. What you're asking is not why any grid, but why an infinite un-malleable grid. What you want is the paradigm of Numbers from Apple. Their office suite is good, and it has the benefit of being opinionated. They're not trying to ape Microsoft, like all the open-source projects.