Lots of the tasks carried out in offices are not technical enough to suffer from the issues you correctly identify after a given hurdle. I work as an economist

Lots of the tasks carried out in offices are not technical enough to suffer from the issues you correctly identify after a given hurdle. I work as an economist in a government department, and a lot of the analysis involves ad-hoc projects processing data from different sources and doing some basic plotting/elementary calculations. Excel is perfect for this, but if something is too technical/repetitive it becomes less suitable.