> Just because some people misuse it as database or it doesn't scale well beyond a couple of 10k rows does not make it a bad product. It's not just that making

> Just because some people misuse it as database or it doesn't scale well beyond a couple of 10k rows does not make it a bad product. It's not just that making it a bad product. Those are minor annoyances when compared with it trying to keep your data hostage in opaque formats[1] and exfiltrating your data to the cloud[2]. [1] https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2025/07/18/artificially-complex-xml-schema-as-lock-in-tool/ https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2025/07/18/artifici... [2] https://superuser.com/questions/1903431/how-to-stop-excel-365-always-offering-to-save-to-onedrive https://superuser.com/questions/1903431/how-to-stop-excel-36...