A good portion of businesses are in my experience. Thing is, it works. That's the real no/low code solution. When I make a spreadsheet, I wish for more structure and such, but I looks through the eyes of a developer. When I just use spreadsheets to get things done, I make a lot more progress.
We use Metabase at my work where we can pull a bunch of great data for dashboards and tables for non-developers and it's great. We can also build nice internal dashboards with all sorts of aggregated data. Still, a lot of the team uses just a mix of a few Metabase dashboards and spreadsheets with manually imported CSVs from services like Stripe. It works well for them. As a developer, I'd want to optimize and automate some of that away, but there's a good chance I'd spend more time than them.
I think you can look at spreadsheets as a form of tech debt. If the debt's interest rate is low (as it is in many situations where spreadsheets are used for long periods of time), then you might never need to get rid of it. If it has a high interest rate (not scaling or working well given the current work load), then it's time to move over to specialized software. Time wise, it's not unlikely that the interest rate is low and it won't need to be swapped out for a long time, or even ever.
While these spreadsheets could use some (or a lot) of work, they seem to be working just fine for the businesses for the most part. As developers, I think we like structure and efficiency, sometimes to a fault.
We use Metabase at my work where we can pull a bunch of great data for dashboards and tables for non-developers and it's great. We can also build nice internal dashboards with all sorts of aggregated data. Still, a lot of the team uses just a mix of a few Metabase dashboards and spreadsheets with manually imported CSVs from services like Stripe. It works well for them. As a developer, I'd want to optimize and automate some of that away, but there's a good chance I'd spend more time than them.
I think you can look at spreadsheets as a form of tech debt. If the debt's interest rate is low (as it is in many situations where spreadsheets are used for long periods of time), then you might never need to get rid of it. If it has a high interest rate (not scaling or working well given the current work load), then it's time to move over to specialized software. Time wise, it's not unlikely that the interest rate is low and it won't need to be swapped out for a long time, or even ever.
While these spreadsheets could use some (or a lot) of work, they seem to be working just fine for the businesses for the most part. As developers, I think we like structure and efficiency, sometimes to a fault.