[dragonwriter]

> Most of what you term as poor IT policies is just what (in my personal experience) just users finding something that works for them.

No, what I am terming "poor IT policies and organizational practices" is people being restricted as to what tools they are permitted to use in a blanket way that doesn't consider task specific needs, and having imposed difficult, inefficient, bureaucratic processes to get either permission to use other tools or support from the people that are permitted to use other tools, and/or which result in poor quality of support when those authorized to other tools do end up supporting them (often, again, because of inefficient, bureaucratic processes.)

You can disagree with my perception that this one of the biggest problems with spreadsheets, but please don't try to redefine what I'm actually talking about.

[nekopa]

I apologize. I tried to make it clear that I was giving my opinion, via my personal experience. I'm sorry if you somehow feel I was trying to redefine what you are actually talking about. I was not. I was just trying to engage in conversation with you about people and spreadsheets. And maybe your terms, from what you have seen (or maybe you are talking about some kind of official research into why people do what they do with spreadsheets) are more true than what I've seen, but honestly, in my 25+ years of working with various businesses, I've yet to come across someone who worked strangely with spreadsheets because of company restrictions. Again, and I cannot stress this enough, this is just from my single data point, my own personal view. Not trying to redefine what you're talking about, just saying my opinion.