[danso]

Yeah, hate to break it to the OP, because God knows I speak against the use of spreadsheets whenever possible...but the most common use-case for a spreadsheet is not as part of a reproducible, automated data pipeline. Many times, it's hand-entered data entry, with the goal of making one of the pre-baked Excel visualizations. For users who want type-checking, there's Access, which is more attuned to handling non-trivial datasets.

[reitanqild]

> Many times, it's hand-entered data entry

Yes, many companies pays good money for people to update those Excel sheets.

Me? I see almost every single Excel sheet that is updated over more than a week as a possible sale. But I'm not replacing Excel spreadsheets full time, at least not yet : )

[mcguire]

It's just a good thing no one ever makes important decisions based on spreadsheets.