There is so much excel voodoo involved to do things with that software. I still believe that the learning curve of excel is no harder than the learning curve of doing the same exact thing in R or python, plus you'd end up having the data and the formulas in different places which brings loads of benefits (for instance, git). People are just familiar with excel because thats what they used to make a chart in science class in 7th grade since 1995, but they really could have learned to make the same chart in 7th grade with a language like python too, if it were only taught python instead of excel in school. And then we'd have a generation of workers fluent in a language like python rather than fluent in the very limited use case by comparison Excelese, and we would no doubt reap the benefits in our GDP. Its like we are limiting the knowledge of fire among our tribe when we don't really have to, it's perfectly learnable.