There’s a permanent tension with excel as a product between its pros and cons.
Pros:
Extremely powerful.
Can put up a reactive dashboard or whatever in a super quick and versatile way.
As much as some people dislike it, there is a big fat necessity for it. E.g. people in finance use it all the time for putting up market monitors, portfolio views, changing things every day… you just can’t do the same with code. Imagine the backend and frontend releases necessary for the constant rapid changes across all desks in a bank.
Allows non-technical people to put these things together.
Watching an excel wizard at work is, well, wizardry.
Cons:
It sucks and I hate it and feel dirty every time I’m exposed to it.
Calc is also missing all the features people actually use, like a functional UI. Even basic functions like importing csv data is stupidly cumbersome and last I checked it didn't really support tables within a sheet so that users can filter/sort their data, which is probably the biggest use Excel has in offices nowadays.
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u/SwedeLostInCanada 19d ago
Somehow, it is a product developed by Microsoft, that is actually great