I don't think it would have, with the caveat that I'm only familiar with the BASICs of the 80s and 90s (my first language was QBASIC and I also learned Visual B

I don't think it would have, with the caveat that I'm only familiar with the BASICs of the 80s and 90s (my first language was QBASIC and I also learned Visual Basic 6); I wasn't around in the 70s and I know little about the BASICs of that era. I think a major part of the appeal of VisiCalc was introducing the now-familiar spreadsheet UI to people. Yes, anything I could do in a spreadsheet I could also do with a general-purpose programming language, including BASIC. In fact, from time to time I use Python instead of Excel. However, spreadsheets are more accessible for non-programmers, and even for programmers there are many cases where the UI/UX of a spreadsheet is more convenient, just like how there are some tasks where I prefer LaTeX over Microsoft Word, and other tasks where the reverse is true.