[nonethewiser]

> Having a visual way to configure this makes it much more accessible to non-programmers

I agree completely but thats not the point he appears to be making. He never stated this was the use case and he reiterated that it was a bad idea which should never be done.

Regardless, I’m saying those arent really unique advantages to excel. They just look unique compared to json, toml, yaml, etc.

[hot_gril]

I can't think of any data entry method more easily understood by non-programmers than an Excel spreadsheet (or Google Sheets etc). Repetitive data in particular is a breeze since you can drag-expand and use formulas. We use GSheets at work for configs created by non-programmers, and it works great.

[nonethewiser]

What is your point? You can see from my previous comment I already agree excel is user friendly for non programmers.

[hot_gril]

The user-friendliness is a unique advantage of Excel.