I agree. It's extremely hard to learn to use someone else's spreadsheet unless they're sitting right there with you watching you fumble through it.
I have a couple of spreadsheets that I use on a weekly basis, and I found it easiest to build both of them from scratch, despite the tons of examples floating around for exactly my use cases, and despite it being my first time building anything with a spreadsheet in 10+ years.
On the bright side, after using these spreadsheets for a week, I lost all desire to write apps to do the same things. Google Sheets is a good-enough UI and solves sync across different computers and mobile.
I have a couple of spreadsheets that I use on a weekly basis, and I found it easiest to build both of them from scratch, despite the tons of examples floating around for exactly my use cases, and despite it being my first time building anything with a spreadsheet in 10+ years.
On the bright side, after using these spreadsheets for a week, I lost all desire to write apps to do the same things. Google Sheets is a good-enough UI and solves sync across different computers and mobile.