Maybe this is not so much about bringing Python to Excel, more about bringing Excel to Python. But only if you do it the way Microsoft wants you to. As with BA

Maybe this is not so much about bringing Python to Excel, more about bringing Excel to Python. But only if you do it the way Microsoft wants you to. As with BASIC morphing into VisualBasic and VBA you lure (beginning) python programmers into Excel. Ultimately those developers will understand and appreciate less and less of vanilla python REPL, jupyter, scripts, etc. And... Welcome to Microsoft's world.