I completely agree with your main point: excel is terrible because people use it for everything. I've noticed there different ways people use excel: as a dashb

I completely agree with your main point: excel is terrible because people use it for everything. I've noticed there different ways people use excel: as a dashboard, to store data, to modify data. IMO storing data is the worst use of excel, especially when it's done in a non 'tidy' fashion , with highlights and formatting to encode data. This is from my experience as an R and python user in science.