What they lose is a long history and community knowledge of hacks. What they gain is data integrity, consistency, and concurrency. We need to think about a too

What they lose is a long history and community knowledge of hacks. What they gain is data integrity, consistency, and concurrency. We need to think about a tool that can do those with the same ease as Excel (Or Access). If we can't do that, it's because we need to make these tools better.