Thanks! I'm gratified!
I made a comment on that issue which hopefully will inform this --- I will note that while on the surface it's a great idea, the UI will be _very_ challenging and not being able to address it may make it not worth pursuing.
Alternately, maybe the correct approach would be some sort of hybrid where columns/rows can be named and then referred to using said names....
I really miss Lotus Improv, and can't afford Quantrix, and don't have the programming chops to resurrect Flexisheet, so I keep pestering folks about this, but in the meanwhile, I use pyspread....