I drew a line in the sand some months ago, and it was <i>we will not turn our product into a spreadsheet</i>.<p>But when customers need certain capabilities, sometimes the &quot;obvious&quot; solution looks exactly like a spreadsheet, since we deal with sets of related, domain-specific lists.<p>Those are always product-breaking, lazy-minded solutions that in the long run won&#x27;t serve the customer well and generate mountains of technical and UX debt.  Like a &quot;miscellaneous&quot; category for UI actions, they indicate a shortage of insight and imagination.