Spreadsheets are the best way to represent data, but there is a very long-tail of tasks one might to perform with their data. Requiring all of them to be built into a visual UI pretty much insists you end up with Excel - what feels like 1 billion features, where each user knows <1% of them (and costs millions of programmer-hours to build).

I don't think users can/should leave spreadsheets for the tasks spreadsheets make sense for (basic data munching, pivoting, many formulas, etc). But being able to easily transition your spreadsheet to other tools in a easy/native way is a huge win - and why at least half of our users are actually just Python programmers who use Mito because it makes that transition back and forth to spreadsheet/code so easy!

I don't think anyone should abandon tools if they are working for them :-)