I was wrong about spreadsheets (2017)
My issue with spreadsheets is that they could be improved a lot with minimal changes, not nobody seems to do it in popular office packages. Making them more database-like and making table data first-class (at least you can make named tables in excel on windows) could be used to push people a bit more towards organised data, without changing how anything works.Half of the mess that makes excel hell comes from the fact it's too easy to put two tables of data + some random constants on a single sheet and refer to them by H3. Now it's hard to add more data, hard to move anything, and hard to create space which expands to the next row with existing formulas.Airtable (and Access) implements this idea, but unfortunately sacrifices the generic, free-form spreadsheet along the way.I'd be even happy with clippy popping up with "It looks like you're adding a new table in the same sheet. Would you like to learn about using multiple sheets?"