What's annoying me today

I don't hate spreadsheets. They are a very useful tool. I use one occasionally (but less so now I've moved my football admin to a database). I strongly dislike when they are used for things they are not well suited for, when they are very large, and when they are shared and used for collaborative tasks. Because in those scenarios they are not often the best tool for the job.

Something like grist is a better collaborative solution (create the data model using grist-electron, then roll out to a self-hosted instance for collaboration). But people know how to use spreadsheets, so every screw is a nail to their hammer, and they often end up bloated, slow, hard to maintain share and version, and full of errors or the potential for them.

Almost everyone, on their phone?

No.

Nope.

Affirmative.

People are used to using spreadsheets. Spreadsheets work. If you always use a spreadsheet, you will only know how to do things with spreadsheets.

If I want to quickly analyse a set of data, I'm going to use a spreadsheet. If I need to collect and manage large sets of data collaboratively, and periodically analyse elements of it I'm going to use a database (maybe using a spreadsheet an analysis tool). Spreadsheets can do all of this, so it's easier to use one (and only one personal skill set), but with large sets of data, that needs sharing and versioning, you will run into problems with spreadsheets (even if it's only the logistics of managing independent edits of 'current' versions).

If you want to see what modern database tools, designed to replace the use of spreadsheets (where they are sub-optimal), you can do worse than look at grist, and specifically grist-electron as a stand alone application.