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Pretty much all data heavy organisations use excel VERY heavily. And when nobody understands the model within them any more, they need retiring and are usually replaced with... Excel! This time with even more tabs and columns. To replace these things with computer models risks repeating the same problem the original sheet has: bus factors and complexities are hard, more so even in python/r than excel sadly. Maybe one day something will trump it, but that day is not today
Did you even read the article?
Yup. And extra extra, excel can be beaten for specific examples with lots of extra tooling. But you know what that tooling will also do? Generate excel reports
hmm generating static excel reports doesn't sound bad, as long as these are used just as output format - basically a familiar GUI.
Yeah, it is a good data dense gui, and is ubiquitous. But now it does python too! What a dreadful decision that was
Generating a report using Excel as a format is a lot different from using Excel as a database.