Nearly all spreadsheet replacement software is worse though: it’s seeming clarity comes from being overly rigid or overly difficult to configure. I don’t get t

Nearly all spreadsheet replacement software is worse though: it’s seeming clarity comes from being overly rigid or overly difficult to configure. I don’t get the hate for spreadsheets. It has APIs, great primitives, good automation capabilities, im-/export, and is human-readable and writeable. This particular spreadsheet from the article might have gone bad, but for centrally tracking an 20,000 item list, a spreadsheet doesn’t seem to be completely out of place. To improve on it for a presumably very specialised use case with recurring changes and adaptive processes that might give you an edge over competitors, they probably need their own small development team. And this can of course go bad quickly too.