We could say that for pretty much any programming environment, couldn't we?

I feel like HN is often populated by rather skilled and rather disciplined software engineers, and for them almost any language can be a pristine tool and a code base can be beautiful and clean.

For someone who may be analytically capable but not a software developer, I feel that Excel can be the correct tool even if it yields some ugly "code bases". The tool you have at hand is often the most expedient tool to use even if not perhaps the absolute best.