This is great, as somebody that's inexperience and uninterested in financial planning (but aware I can't ignore it), I really appreciate the simplicity and clear language.
I misread what you were saying in other comments about a sandbox and thought "nah, what this really needs is prefilled scenarios". Looks like you have the right idea: I'd absolutely love that, I have no idea what to fill in most of these boxes and would like some examples! That could orient your tool towards education rather than planning though
Wow, if I had known just how popular a feature this would be I would have done it already! It's going to the top of the list now. And yeah I think the planning process does have an educational element to it, and the way you can quickly experiment with different ideas can help to discover and quantify trade-offs. I'm sure the prefilled template/scenario options would enhance that educational aspect further.
I misread what you were saying in other comments about a sandbox and thought "nah, what this really needs is prefilled scenarios". Looks like you have the right idea: I'd absolutely love that, I have no idea what to fill in most of these boxes and would like some examples! That could orient your tool towards education rather than planning though