Yeah most of the reasons explained in the article are too abstract for a beginner to understand. Visibility for example. If Excel is doing what the user needs,

Yeah most of the reasons explained in the article are too abstract for a beginner to understand. Visibility for example. If Excel is doing what the user needs, they might naturally question why they need to see under the hood. It might even be a positive that you get less visibility with it. Excel is exposing a smaller surface for the user to understand. Once you have a more complex task those guardrails are going to feel constraining, but until then Excel works well enough.