Excel is like the yellow engineering pads: essential for an engineer. I tried to use Google Sheets, but nothing matches the speed of popping open excel, and th

Excel is like the yellow engineering pads: essential for an engineer. I tried to use Google Sheets, but nothing matches the speed of popping open excel, and the functionality (still can't do 2D TABLE solvers in Sheets AFAIK). I know Sheets can work offline, too, but it is sluggish compared to native Excel. I had issues for years with Excel on Mac doing wonky things, but with the latest non Office365 version, they've fix a lot of issues (mostly rendering). I got into JMP but only because my employer paid for it (it's like $15k i think), but while it is powerful stats engine, it lacks the sheer imaginative flexibility of a spreadsheet. There really aren't many other choices, are there? I mean, prior to excel, lotus123 was de-facto, and the last time I tried StarOffice it hurt my soul.