Even though I hate how AppSumo fades away from its roots, there still are some gems to pick & support. In this case its not a lifetime deal but, how I'd call it, a generous trial, likely targeting the 2-3% of users here with a potential to turn into prospects or even customers.

In all honesty, I am a fan of gSheets for its versatillity. It can be bend to your liking, integrates well or, in worst case, just need some lines of AppScript to enforce the little pieces that doesn't bend nicely enough. However, if you need more than that, you end up in BigQuery.

My business isnt big enough to justify the efforts that come with going into such a PowerHorse + it basically adds a lot more complexiy while stitching even more things together.

ROWS appears to be a promsing alternative with decent limits. The deal allows me to learn about its capabillities and reliabillity for free. Nothing to complain about and even happy to turn into a paying customer if it delivers on my expecations.

Thinking out loud/wishlist/recommendations:

1)
I was / still am also evaluating https://equals.app/ allowing me to use javascript or python to built custom ETL functions - a feature I am missing in ROWs but ope to see soon. Any plans on this? (Core need: I have to(!) use RPA to grab .gzip compressed .csv data from various website with hundreds of files, deflate, import and manipulate those data on a hourly base. Using AppScript for that for now and wish ROWS would allow me adding custom JS code to just do that.

2)
For teams, its yet unclear how API secrets are stored and made accessable without sharing them with the team. (KEY Storage maintained / shared by an admin user without sharing the keys themselve)

3)
I could have missed it, but where are sending/receiving webhooks?

4)
Give me an option to be alerted by mail/sms/push notification on failed runs/outages/delays & set auto-retry attempts + allow me set an optio to halt a scheduled workflow depending on data if e.g. Table1 automation stalls/fails so scheduled workflow in Table2 will wait rather execute and producing another error (using webhooks would be preferred here to eliminate such situations fully)

5)
I couldnt find intel on max row size per sheet but in any case: Is there an aut-archive built-in function appending new rows while archiving rows older than x days / x weeks (I use timestamps for imports) from the sheet while auto expanding another reporting query to ensure reports remain intact?