The spreadsheet thing is really hilarious to me. Kind of takes the whole 'hunting' portion out of it, eh.
All the spreadsheet does is save me the trouble of keeping written notes myself, which was what I was doing before I found my server's spreadsheet.

It's the same as games now having maps, rather than gamers needing to use graph paper to map our own dungeons. Only we're still actually keeping track of our own NM progress... so it's actually a lot more old-school than meets the eye... only we can all share each other's work.