Them: Why not use Google Sheets or MS Excel as a Database?

Me: You are right. Go ahead and use it. Have a nice day.

@nixCraft do you recall this gem? Public Health England lost track of a lot of Covid cases in their reporting because they not only used Excel as their reporting DB, but they used the wrong Excel format.

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-54423988

Excel: Why using Microsoft's tool caused Covid-19 results to be lost

The decision to use a spreadsheet format that dates back to the 1980s has proved to be unwise.