I think there is a tipping point in complexity where Excel needs to be replaced by something else. In the IT world I've seen businesses that have essentially cr

I think there is a tipping point in complexity where Excel needs to be replaced by something else. In the IT world I've seen businesses that have essentially created bespoke ERP applications for themselves by evolving a web of interlinked Excel files over years. A food distributor I worked for was handling their upstream vendors, warehouse inventories, truck inventories, customer list, order history, deliveries, invoicing, and more this way. These businesses suffer because the "Excel ERP" is constantly breaking or losing data, and no one knows how it really works anymore. The food distributor eventually migrated to an actual ERP made for their industry, and the amount of effort and stress saved at all levels of the company was massive.