Comment by rnavi

> I wish there were simple-as-Excel frontends for databases

This is exactly what we are attempting to solve at nocodb : https://github.com/nocodb/nocodb

Which is, nocodb gives you a google-drive like collaborative spreadsheets on your existing databases (MySQL, Postgres etc)

And the original problem in article could be countered with nocodb as we keep audit of all changes done to the database.