You'll never see how it competes if you've never explored the software. I transitioned all my realtime Excel documents over to Google sheets something like 5 y

You'll never see how it competes if you've never explored the software. I transitioned all my realtime Excel documents over to Google sheets something like 5 years ago now, but the ability to do this has existed for much longer. It has the distinct advantage of always running. I don't need to leave my computer on, the sheets are always updating somewhere in the cloud, always up to date when I open them, and trigger actions whenever certain criteria is met. The alternative would be to leave an Excel sheet running on a computer 24x7 and making sure that computer doesn't power down or reboot, or building a database solution on a hosted server somewhere. The main advantage Excel has is that you can do some things a little faster since you're using your own resources.. but if I needed speed, I wouldn't be working out of a spreadsheet.