If you're ever interested in an alternative to Mathcad, Blockpad handles this pretty well with native spreadsheet-like tables.
https://blockpad.net/pages/quick-start-tables
Excel's downsides are very real, but spreadsheets do have benefits over other programs (density of display, natural tabular data storage/generation, easy-to-learn language, affordability, and a lot more.
For those of you that like spreadsheets and tools like Mathcad, you could check out...
