i think that part of the answer is that software engineers simply aren’t (usually) familiar with excel. It’s a remarkably complex and powerful program but if y

i think that part of the answer is that software engineers simply aren’t (usually) familiar with excel. It’s a remarkably complex and powerful program but if you never used it professionally you will never learn its full potential. Yes, it’s easier to do useful stuff as a beginner in excel vs a real programming language but to get really good at it takes time. You might think you know excel because you’ve used it in some of your classes, but to quote my first boss, if you don’t know how to use excel without ever touching a mouse then you aren’t even an intermediate user.