And if they can get by with Excel just as good, then they didn't need mathematicians in the first place.

If not, this will make someone unhappy. And this is the whole point of boycott.

The police is making mathematicians unhappy. Bad cop, no donut in any dimension.

Good, and their word can be treated exactly like we treat the word of any other agency full of non-experts that roll their own analyses with excel. No need to lend them the legitimacy of established mathematicians and other academics.