https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=98590
--- Comment #12 from Mike Kaganski <mikekagan...@hotmail.com> ---
(In reply to b. from comment #10)
> 2. it is almost a question of faith, one party defends that changes by the
> user should not have any harmful effects on existing constructions, but
> accepts that errors or 'irritations' will occur later, the other side thinks
> that an action by the user - also a formatting - is a declaration of intent
> to which he expects a reaction. And this immediately, not 'sometime later'
> when he has long forgotten what he reformatted, when and why, or never knew
> about it in a table from someone else.
>
> 3. I'm of the second opinion, if a user does damage with a format change he
> should see it immediately and still has 'ctrl-z' to help him out.
Whenever one wants to ignore the arguments of the other side, they always have
an option to call that "a question of faith". Namely, in this case the #3
illustrates the idea clearly: it's a lunacy to imagine that such a
re-formatting might be seen "immediately". Only a person who never used any
descent spreadsheet in production, with tens of sheets and thousands of rows,
where selecting a column and formatting is differently is a normal workflow to
change presentation (and doing it differently would be absolutely tedious and
would took awful time) - only having no experience in real-life usage patterns,
could one believe that the side effects of such a damaging proposed change
could be noticed immediately. One would need to check every number in the
affected cells, as well as every dependent cells and charts.
So here is not "a question of faith", but a case of one side having this idea
"I don't know how the other side works; but this change would benefit me, and I
believe (aha, here the "faith" appears) that the other side has not more
substantial arguments than I do (and no, I don't want to take trouble to think
about the other side's arguments)".
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