Comment by bsder

Excel rules the roost because it is the GUI to manipulate tabular data.

To be honest: Is there an alternative?

I've been looking for a spreadsheet so that I can "drive spreadsheet from Python" rather than the usual "drive Python from spreadsheet".

As far as I can tell, that doesn't exist.

There are read-only variants to analyzed tabular data, but there seem to be none that allow me to do lots of editing in a visual way.