Well you can. You can ask "boomers" to build stuff in a real programming language. Which they wont. Also you act as if there werent any programming horror stor

Well you can. You can ask "boomers" to build stuff in a real programming language. Which they wont. Also you act as if there werent any programming horror stories. Very often programmers want to rewrite the code they got from othera. ** I am not sure which one is M and which one is DAX. Those are the PowerBI ones. In my opinion they are horrible. The idea of "steps" makes sense, but the gui that breaks steps is horrible. Also the syntax is horrible. ** MS at some point had pivot tables, pivot tables with data model, power pivot, powerBI stand-alone app, "old" sql query editor. Now they try to add powerBI standalone back to Excel.. partially (on a side note I hate that poweBI exports from stand alone app to Excel are so horrible), and they got rid of the old SQL editor. If you want to write SQL in Excel you might as well use notepad.. PowerBI was supposed to be a step forward. OK it allows to build things, but is in my opinion horrible. M/DAX are horrible to use for typical operarions such as; Changing source Combining two sources Joins Joins on joins on joins Joins Syntax is supposed to be explicit, but it is horrible to write and horrible to read