Agreed. Handsontable is an amazing library, and I'm so glad that the author was able to take it "Pro" and get paid for all of his hard work.

For a great use-case of handsontable, everyone's favorite HN'er wrote a great blog post last year: http://www.kalzumeus.com/2015/01/28/design-and-implementatio...

If you like Handsontable, you may also be interested in Sensei Grid[0], a similar, but much simpler data grid component. It doesn't aim to be a spreadsheet/excel alternative, but just a data grid with good usability.

[0] https://github.com/datazenit/sensei-grid

I second that. Having a very good experience with handsontable and planning to buy pro version more out of gratitude than for extra features