I'm not sure where you get the idea it's only for "those who can't code". In my domain, mining, there are many, many excel sheets for all sorts of things that w

I'm not sure where you get the idea it's only for "those who can't code". In my domain, mining, there are many, many excel sheets for all sorts of things that would never merit a single line of code being written. We're far from the only. Sure, at a certain scale and below that for certain types of projects, switching to code and databases make sense. Other than that, it's just plain smart to use the labour saving tool that is Excel.