This. Spreadsheets can be fun as means to solving an interesting problem; they have several things going on for them:
- Focused, incremental, working-memory friendly;
- Very fast feedback loop; it's a dopamine pumping 2D REPL;
- Free of all the devops bullshit, which infected all the "proper" programming tools to the degree it's getting hard to do a local "Hello World" without having to swim through it;
- Because of the derision it gets from "normie tech folks", doing something large in it gives you just the right amount of "hold my beer and watch this" bragging rights (in some ways, this is similar to demoscene on legacy platforms like Amiga).
- Focused, incremental, working-memory friendly;
- Very fast feedback loop; it's a dopamine pumping 2D REPL;
- Free of all the devops bullshit, which infected all the "proper" programming tools to the degree it's getting hard to do a local "Hello World" without having to swim through it;
- Because of the derision it gets from "normie tech folks", doing something large in it gives you just the right amount of "hold my beer and watch this" bragging rights (in some ways, this is similar to demoscene on legacy platforms like Amiga).