You’re right - but the biggest issue is clearly one of experience. Someone was put into a critical role they weren’t prepared for - a position in which their failures cost lives. They don’t have a redundant process, or error checking, or even someone familiar with spreadsheets.

That’s the scandal: it’s the type of basic error that it screams “they’re not handling this well.” You wouldn’t tolerate your new SWE colleague asking “What’s an array again?”

If publishing the whole set of data was delayed by excel crashing - fine. But silent failure because they ran out of columns? Cmon...