&gt; That&#x27;s why people still use Excel instead of whatever database solution their IT department bought&#x2F;prepared - because it doesn&#x27;t limit them to particular poorly understood interpretation of their workflow that was outdated last week<p>I&#x27;d like to dispute that claim. Specialised apps have eaten a large market share of what were once was Excel sheets. Same thing with Craigslist: about all of its individual categories have been &quot;disrupted&quot; by startups. WordPress replaced a large chunk of what once were hand crafted HTML websites or homemade CMS. Heroku ate a large chunk of the dedicated&#x2F;VPS&#x2F;shared hosting market.<p>Of course people we will always need generic apps and languages as long as they haven&#x27;t found the specific solution to their problem.