That sounds like you want to rebuild the whole paradigm of how 99% of software world treats numbers (which may be, at the end, a right thing to do but unlikely

That sounds like you want to rebuild the whole paradigm of how 99% of software world treats numbers (which may be, at the end, a right thing to do but unlikely to happen at least in the near term) and you are laying the fault of it not happening at Excel's door. That would be very misplaced blame.