Yeah, but what about stuff where the format really matters? Most people want numbers on receipts to line up vertically. There exist spreadsheet looking reports

Yeah, but what about stuff where the format really matters? Most people want numbers on receipts to line up vertically. There exist spreadsheet looking reports that are just big tables of numbers. There are, perhaps, ways of presenting that data in a more fluid layout friendly way, but that's not an easy thing to do.