My initial comment came across more antagonistic than I intended lol and I wasn’t trying to hand wave away the “mental burden.” I chose the word because it ackn

My initial comment came across more antagonistic than I intended lol and I wasn’t trying to hand wave away the “mental burden.” I chose the word because it acknowledges the effort required, so apologies. And I didn’t mean that Excel is bad or anything, it’s extremely good at what it’s for. And like u mention, it’s much easier for someone to pick up excel and “get stuff done” than say python. My point was simply that there’s merits to one suggesting an alternative to excel related tasks. It’s not unequivocally a better choice for everyone, but it certainly can be. And lol windows is more so just the privacy thing and msft fucking their users around. I’ve heard great things about powershell. But ironically, the command line rlly isn’t difficult to grok, and certainly not hard relative to working with ridiculously nested XLOOKUP’s