As other comments have noted, it gives rise to the new problem of the proliferation of stale, incomplete, or otherwise incorrect data.
Google Sheets, on the other hand, is truly compelling, and a lt of the work I've been doing lately has been using Sheets and Apps Script to build really powerful "apps" on the super-cheap. This is the stuff we used to do with VB years ago, and it would take weeks. Now I can get at least a PoC of a fully multi-user system in front of a client in a day, and they don't pay anything to host it.
Google Sheets, on the other hand, is truly compelling, and a lt of the work I've been doing lately has been using Sheets and Apps Script to build really powerful "apps" on the super-cheap. This is the stuff we used to do with VB years ago, and it would take weeks. Now I can get at least a PoC of a fully multi-user system in front of a client in a day, and they don't pay anything to host it.