There aren’t enough trained programmers in the world to do in code what all Excel users get done with spreadsheets. Let alone programmers who understand the business of the company they work for.
The thing is, with Excel the programming is gradual, you first just add some formulas, followed by conditional formatting, small macros, until eventually jumping into full VBA.
Alternatives, including Access, require good programming knowledge from day one.
But I still fundamentally agree with this approach. Perhaps not all users, but most users should be given a path toward more programming based approach to modelling.
I think lighswitch was stillborn when it wasn't distributed as part of office (irrespective of its merits, haven't tried it myself). Asking IT departments to deploy it was bound to fail. It needs to be available at the fingertips of excel users, like VBA is, always there, running with Excel, and you know it is available to everyone else so anything you do will run without having to install anything on their machine.
Powerapps look amazing to be honest. I actually would like to use that and the BI integration, but unfortunately I don't have enough reason to spend money on it. The small organising that I do need ends up in Airtable instead, but that's not even close. (I miss proper graphing features)
