@oantolin There's tools and then there's tools. Before I got confident in #Emacs #Lisp I used to use (may god forgive me) Excel to do stuff like this.
Which was, I hope we can agree, unambiguously better than not being able to automate those processes. But not ideal.
We have lost so much in thirty or forty years, worst of all the autonomy to automate.
"But it feels like something from the seventies!" Yes, correct, that is exactly how it feels. Like something I can understand, control, and USE