If you have a spreadsheet on a share that you'd like multiple people to have concurrent access to, Excel is not the way to go (until now; nowadays you can just put it on OneDrive and add access). Access was perfect for that kind of configuration for a small office that you could customize a small database without being a DBA.
I use it for a few hobby things and it's fun. Drag and drop a few things in a form, add a couple fields and you're good to go! Sure beats having to write SQL by hand and a few hundred lines of Python to interface with it; and that's before you write the UI for it.
I wish MS would spend a little bit of that R&D budget to improve on it some more, and expand its capability. But that'd cannibalize their other products, likely. It's too niche nowadays.
I use it for a few hobby things and it's fun. Drag and drop a few things in a form, add a couple fields and you're good to go! Sure beats having to write SQL by hand and a few hundred lines of Python to interface with it; and that's before you write the UI for it.
I wish MS would spend a little bit of that R&D budget to improve on it some more, and expand its capability. But that'd cannibalize their other products, likely. It's too niche nowadays.