Countless, <i>countless</i> businesses use Excel and they all suffer from what you correctly put as the &quot;worst tooling out of any application platform&quot;.  They&#x27;re suffering every day and yet where is the desire to alleviate their pain?  It doesn&#x27;t exist.  I would expect to see hundreds of competing projects.  I see just a few and they&#x27;re all crippled in some form.<p>I think it&#x27;s a failure of venture capital.  What&#x27;s funded is often what looks good rather than what is needed.  That&#x27;s my guess but I don&#x27;t know.