Clippy has been vilified by memes way beyond its reality. Microsoft was courting new computer users then, and those users liked Clippy.

But more importantly, somebody would need to give a shit. Microsoft segments everything out internally, whomever “owns” excel is a director of directors and is too disconnected.

Copilot is even worse, as it’s a top down “Copilot all of the things” initiative from the top.