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Re:The worst of the two worlds: Excel meets Outlook by josephg on Saturday February 13, 2021 @06:38PM (#26128126)
I don't think its even that rare.

As an example, there's a popular idle game called "ngu idle", full of complex overlapping and intertwined progression systems.

Someone made this spreadsheet to help you optimize your play. Some of the worksheets in this have very carefully considered UI and complex data flows. Its totally inscrutable if you've never played the game, but its more complex and well crafted than many apps on my phone:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1S1JXe3kZeqzxBOVXMo2-...

Re:The worst of the two worlds: Excel meets Outlook by skydhash on Saturday February 13, 2021 @06:55PM (#26128259)
I once seen one used in risk evaluation for line of credits