Unfortunately, computer geeks like us are far more interested in making interesting features than making things discoverable and accessible. It's hard enough to get an OSS dev to make a GUI, let alone a good one.

I think the most prescient point so far has been that Excel quickly gives you a sanity check of you data, because it gives you the full view of days right away. Working on an ERP rewrite right now, this has been our continual issue, making all of the data visible, in ways that the old system never did.