Excel is more than just a hammer it’s the fork that is in every single drawer of every single company/org in the world.

It’s not about every problem looking like a nail, it’s that, nobody had to pay for this fork, somehow everyone has it and it’s such a great fork that it can do 90% of the problems you throw at it.

Yea sure some problems would be better solved with specialized tools, (eg knife, spoon, etc) but those require training and budget. No one has those. Everyone has a fork.