[entropyie]

For those who hated the unmaintainable mega spreadsheet of death, MS Access was actually a quite decent solution. It allowed you to sprinkle some structure and maintainability onto a spreadsheet without losing the accessibility and ease of development. You could whip up really functional UIs without much coding knowledge. 20 years later and I still don't know what the replacement for Access is in today's world...

[urbandw311er]

Amen. IMHO the equivalent nowadays would be AirTable - big fan of this, especially now they’ve added Interfaces which is the equivalent of the MS Access UI layer.