For home use sure, libreoffice or Mac pages or even Google spreadsheet is adequate. I do a bunch of financial modeling in excel and the custom formatting, form

For home use sure, libreoffice or Mac pages or even Google spreadsheet is adequate. I do a bunch of financial modeling in excel and the custom formatting, formula construction and sheer number of formulas are useful — saves me from jumping to just writing a program. Honestly, writing a program would be easier for me, but the presentation would be a pain, especially losing the excel UX that lets someone else do “what if”. Word has that same level of complexity or more, but it gets in the way. It’s easier to write a latex doc.