Colour scale on column values

Thys

I would like a colour scale applied to column values, similar to the Excel colour scale conditional formatting capability. Pick the colour extremes and let the system shade the background from the highest to the lowest values accordingly.

Yes, I know I can recreate it by hand, but it is inelegant and detracts from Smartsheet, making it unnecessarily difficult to convince Accounts to pay for Smartsheet licences when Excel can do the job more easily ;-)