I don't agree that they are good at it, but even if they are I don't think the models even have the information needed to reason, they just have a very short ab

I don't agree that they are good at it, but even if they are I don't think the models even have the information needed to reason, they just have a very short abbreviation. Even in that very simple example the model is screwing up, running regressions determined entirely by one outlier and not even copying the R^2 to the text correctly. So now someone has to go back and fix the model's work. Spreadsheets ARE everywhere, but they're even harder to connect back to the source of the data because their proximal source is some e-mail message. There just isn't enough information in the sheet to tell the model what the data actually means.