An argument can be made for replacing brittle, difficult to follow twisty spreadsheet programs (which is a lot of what people do with Excel that they can't do w

An argument can be made for replacing brittle, difficult to follow twisty spreadsheet programs (which is a lot of what people do with Excel that they can't do with anything else) with more conventional programs; maintainability benefits could be significant, just to pick one low lying fruit. But there's no money in it.