Article TLDR: Workers over ~30 love Excel. Younger workers are willing to try new webapps that are like Excel, but with squircles and in the cloud.
These tools include a number of SAAS startups whose marketing departments definitely did not pay Techcrunch any money to get plugged in this article.
Your job or career as a software engineer is not threatened, though the title was intended to make you feel that way in order to bait clicks. Assuming you don’t work on Excel, that is.