It would be nice if there was a local alternative though. You can’t always put all your data in a cloud service which doesn’t work offline or interact with the local file system.
I agree it's incredible! Everyone owes it to themselves to try it for 5 min if not yet familiar. Its as easy and intuitive as excel (if not more) and has many of the benefits of a database plus a great interface, document attachments, integrated maps, etc.
Airtable can be mistaken for "just a pretty spreadsheet" at first glance, but it has nice column constraints, user access control, and (my favorite part) Trello-like comment history for each row.