Excel is cared about a lot in some industries - finance it is still running huge amounts of the workflow (from hedge funds to major banks whose auditors pull their hair out)

The main point I'm making is that of the troika of office applications, only the spreadsheet still has value. I suspect I could teach everyone Markdown far faster and with better outcomes than teach Word users to move to (open office equivalent)

It's something about software literacy - you just don't need Word anymore.