I think the point is less "can this be done in X minutes?" and more "is there an easier way to do this?" This, at least, is what frustrates me about people who

I think the point is less "can this be done in X minutes?" and more "is there an easier way to do this?" This, at least, is what frustrates me about people who are Excel fanatics but refuse to learn a couple days' worth of Python, Ruby, VBA, whatever. Nested conditionals might be easy, but a case statement is vastly easier to write and understand. There are lots of people who would say "oh I could never program" and then write Excel functions too complex for me to understand.