I see these “everyone gush about how great excel is” threads and I always recoil in horror and go in to see if there’s anyone who agrees with my perplexingly minority viewpoint.

For trivial things and certain specific use cases spreadsheets are fine. But it never is left at that. For lack of awareness of any other programming language they get used for programming and analytics platforms and turn into byzantine, unmaintainable, undocumented beasts with hard to read and check formulas and business logic.

My current company is plagued by these built by no-coders over decades. There’s teams of people whose primary job function is to click copy and paste between these to generate regular reports. Excel is a curse.