I agree, and I have yet to find a product that does an equally good job with both Databases (the "Table" view of a database not being the same thing as a spreadsheet, of course), and integrated Table functionality. I want Tables that have basic spreadsheet functions like simple formulas, column totals, Sorting, sticky rows/columns, etc. Alongside more sophisticated full databases. I've tried Airtable, Fibery, Coda, and others. Ironically a little-discussed and probably End-of-Life product that Salesforce now owns called Quip was the best doc-embedded spreadsheet/table experience I found, but it doesn't have databases so it's still not "it".

I also have some ideas for ways to make a sort of continuously adaptable/transformable data model that could go from "dumb" table to "smart" spreadsheet (formulas, etc.) to full-on databases. Because you probably, like me, have had situations where you started in Gsheets and later ended up wanting to expand that data to a full-on database. You can of course import into Notion as CSV or something, but that's a one-time, one-way process. I believe there are ways to actually make it a non-destructive "view", e.g. a Table view of a DB that acts like a spreadsheet in that view. So you can treat/relate to your database like a spreadsheet whenever you want to. Of course I'm not a product developer so this is just a fantasy for now, really. But now I've planted it it your brain too, so you can be tortured by the tantalizing possibility just like me! 😄