[slightwinder]

> A spreadsheet gives you a DB

They can emulate behaviour of databases; but the missing parts missing will haunt you. Spreadsheets are a jack of all trade, mastering nothing, haunting you with everything;.an amplifier for the Dunning–Kruger, where people are misguided about data-quality.

Spreadsheets are indeed a great tool, but the implementations we have today are bad, with too many booby traps, not enough safeguards, not even much comfort for those with higher demands.