s/install/somehow obtain access/

Doesn’t really change the point.

As of this writing, there are twenty-two comments on this thread about airtable. All but four are either you or responding to you bringing it up.

I think it’s fair to say that whatever its advantages may be, it is relatively unknown, and therefore a higher-overhead entree into programming than straight up spreadsheets.

Just learning about it or finding fit for purpose takes more time than diving into a spreadsheet. And as always the argument is not that spreadsheets are more powerful or better, but that they are much easier and more incremental to learn and start with.