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No one does real analytical work with excel... If one is using excel, they are doing basic analytical work that can be done pretty much by every spreadsheet software.
It is just habit. People are used to excel, and are not competent enough to use more advanced tools to do real analytical work. And that's fine. If one is good in a lab doesn't necessarily need be good in data science