The voice associated with the narrator is so buffoonish in this piece, it reads like it was written by someone who found themselves in the role of the layperson and was deliberately (and a bit unfairly) caricaturizing the professional. But it's not.

It's nuts that no mainstream browser has incorporated basic native table-editing controls by now. (They wasted no time adding JSON pretty-printers—unsurprising, really, given that their main actual concern is propping up the JS–industrial complex and the professional developer class and not real users, which they don't actually give a shit about, contra the Priority of Constituencies.)

There is and has been for a long time a huge opportunity for a "Photopea for CSV (and JSON)" to show up and take off.