The ability to use Excel as a "front-end" for other data sources is underrated. For all its warts, Excel is a great data manipulation and exploration tool.
Due to system limitations, I made a stats tracker for my team in AccessDB.
Due to the awfulness of access, I made an excel&vba front-end that would push data to and pull data from access.
It's been working surprisingly well so far, with no reported issues
The existing "solution" was a gigantic excel where people would put it times and names.
In Access, when you enter times, you have to use a specific format, (the datetime group specified by the Windows default) rather than just "23:40" or w/e. I've seen a hack where the hour and minutes are separate boxes, but it wasn't pretty. Just this issue was enough to make Access unappealing.
Access's interface is a bit unintuitive, and given that most people I worked with weren't particularly technically capable, I preferred to present them with the familiar Excel interface (and a few extra buttons), rather than teach them an application they've never used before.
Plus, the existing workflow already used Excel, so I hijacked their workflow and their routine wouldn't be modified much at all (introducing a completely new system would cause a lot of friction and pushback, but one or two extra buttons was fine).
It's been working surprisingly well so far, with no reported issues