donny5

I like the idea, but Excel is too damn good and flexible at what it is designed for. It can make many complex things simple, and to match what just one Excel professional can do, you'd have do keep an entire development department.

I know this because we tried it, and it was complete pain in the ass to continuously adapt our "Excel replacing" applications to rapidly changing business/analytics/reporting requirements.

#2 is actually implemented. Applicable versions are displayed on every page.