The only issue I have with the Spreadsheet is that I need to add an alias for every value I want to use in the Sketch or Part Design workbench. In practice, this usually looks like
A B
width 2mm
length 3mm
VarSets[0] introduced recently in 1.0 and mentioned in a grand-aunt comment are a good alternative to spreadsheets used this way.
[0]: https://wiki.freecad.org/Std_VarSet
https://wiki.freecad.org/Macro_EasyAlias
EasyAlias macro maybe?
not "maybe" this is an absolute must if using parameters in a spreadsheet :)
Its existence has been used by the devs as a reason not to prioritise fixing user-facing bugs. It really should be in core at this point.
Oh. I didn't even know there were macros. But that looks very useful!
Hmmm - I seem to recall there was at least 1-2 scripts or macros available to help with aliasing.