[gcb0]

the goal is to "step in when excell starts to get in the way"

I doubt they will ever care about any of that. a "side loaded application" will likely be the answer to most of those comments.

[klageveen]

There is a lot the platform can do by itself, but I think you grasped it well enough. The side loaded apps are definitely the escape hatch to enable things it doesn't cover (yet).