I think there are several reasons. I for one use text files a lot when I need. Excel does not support Regex, I can simply copy paste a column into a text file a

I think there are several reasons. I for one use text files a lot when I need. Excel does not support Regex, I can simply copy paste a column into a text file and apply regex, or find unique lines. However, WYS* apps can do what most people does with text files and then some. I believe using text files are limited to those who are superusers or programmers, etc. (with exceptions of course)