VBScript is in a .vbs file and run from the command line. There are still lots of tools in office and windows that use this like the command line licensing tools olk.vbs and slmgr.vbs so this is an odd security over functionality decision.

Excel macros are written in this by fortunate decisions in the article below, not sure if the windows cscript and wscript tools that execute vbs have dependency ties to excel https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2006/06/16/my-first-billg-rev... like outlook does to the word editor dlls.