Maybe I'm just a simpleton, but it seems odd to attack something designed to make statistics analysis easy for statisticians, because it doesn't meet the needs

Maybe I'm just a simpleton, but it seems odd to attack something designed to make statistics analysis easy for statisticians, because it doesn't meet the needs of mid-level managers. Managers and other folks who need to make pivot tables, graphs and related things without programming have a great tool to do that: Excel. For these people, Excel is Dropbox.