alt Hacker NewsThat sounds like an extremely narrow use case, compared to what the vast majority of Sheets users will be comfortable with
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yabutlivnWoods • today at 5:24 AM
Use case feels like the wrong term.
Do you mean restricted workflow? Googles APIs are pretty much 1:1 to the GUI
And using Python makes it trivial to copy-paste out of files and other APIs with one run of Python
Versus all the fiddling in browser tabs with a mouse, it actually affords an incredibly wide set of options to quickly collate and format data
At the same time, it makes some sense... the programmers for a system aren't always the best users of a system. So if you're expecting them to dogfood their own system (Google Sheets), you might find that they test/interact with the system primarily through the API and not the GUI.
I have no idea if they do or not, but it's a plausible explanation...