Depends what you're used to. The library management is still split between footprint and symbol (more like old Protel) with links made between the two using an external tool. IMO the PCB layout makes up for the extra messing around (when compared to Eagle's, which is the worst I've used).
Specific feature is colloquially known as luma parade. Also done using RGB channels, (inventively) referred to as RGB parade. Also, on video monitors the parade is usually done over the X axis, so rotated vs what appears in the article.
Talking from a position of extreme ignorance here, but assuming they've got some genre of H-Bridge in their brushless DC driver they should be able to pulse the motor in reverse to support braking. (also making assumptions as to how the regen braking is hooked up here...)
I used to work for a Japanese multinational making networking gear. Excel was part of the mandated SOE, and was used for everything (even unit testing frameworks in VBscript), so this would be a no brainer for their environment. The engineers would have difficulty getting this purchase through as it is too cheap for the enterprise version... In the accountant brain, cheap == a toy for a number of companies.
But, the switching/control equipment is substantially more complicated, voltage conversion is hard due to transformers not working at DC, and you still need to suffer inverter inefficiencies to convert things to AC for domestic use.
Why do modern societies not wish to halt their ageing population issues and increase their tax base? Children are an INVESTMENT. Over the life of the child (assuming they remain in their country of birth of course) the taxation earned should more than offset the cost of funding parental leave. This is insanity...