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I've spent the last 25 years despairing of spreadsheets. Don't get me wrong, I think spreadsheets are an incredibly powerful and massively useful tool. I use them for coding, for record keeping, and and and. There's no doubt they are a great tool.
For one person.
When you have more than one person using the sheet, it's pretty much guaranteed that you're going to go wrong.
Many years ago (and a couple of times again, as I moved to other places), the very large financial institution I worked for did an analysis of the spreadsheets their trading branch were using regularly. It was initially aimed at trying to move the usage into the main trading applications, but it quickly lead to a complete ban on shared spreadsheets.
Spreadsheets built by, and for, individuals, were fine
Spreadsheets that had 2 people owning them were wrong, about 75% of the time
Spreadsheets with 3 people editing them were wrong, 95% of the time
Spreadsheets with 4 or more were just wrong. We couldn't find one that wasn't.
Confluence is a collaboration tool, so we expect people to work together on pages and spaces (and hence the tables within them). So you really really don't want to put spreadsheet functionality into it, because it will fail.
Whilst it would be nice to see formulae in Confluence in some cases, I'm not sure it's the right place to do it, as a collaboration tool.
