The painful thing about Excel is that it's a self-fulfilling prophecy. It's built on extensive UX research that tries to support the existing corporate culture

The painful thing about Excel is that it's a self-fulfilling prophecy. It's built on extensive UX research that tries to support the existing corporate culture and workflow. In so being it reinforces that norm, which generally encodes the assumption: the people handling this data don't understand how or want to write code. It's extremely difficult to build a spreadsheet that gives those people as much power as Excel does. This is frustrating for people working in an Excel shop who know how to code. Most of them realize their coworkers don't want to learn to code. They just wish their skills could be useful.