Comment by zakhar

I can see it being useful for exactly that sort of thing. I've approximated hexagonal grids in spreadsheets by making each cell a square and then merging adjacent squares, alternating by row:

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Useful for working on puzzles like https://puzzles.mit.edu/2021/puzzle/triangles/