Talking about "blame" unnecessarily and counter-productively moves the conversation into a moral perspective. Replace "blame" with "finding defects", and the ar

Talking about "blame" unnecessarily and counter-productively moves the conversation into a moral perspective. Replace "blame" with "finding defects", and the articles absurdity becomes obvious. Do spreadsheet programs have defects? Yes. Do those defects cause errors? Yes. Can those defects be fixed? Also yes. Look at the two recent examples of gene names turned into dates by Excel, and the xls 64k line limit that caused COVID cases to be ignored. Those user traps shouldn't be dismissed with "only a fool blames their tool".