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Yeah i agree with you. Excel is very powerful to some degree but like all things it can be abused.

somewhere in a cube farm i can hear the shouts...

"Hey Karen did you get the latest budget sheet?"

"Is it budget_final_v2_2019.xlsx?"

"Damnit Karen that is from last week dear god dont tell me you sent that to corporate!! We are on budget_final_FINAL_v4.xlsx"

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I've been showing a team of economists working on some economic modeling how to use git and R. They were amazed that they could keep working on a file without creating backup copies, or worrying about team mates overwriting their work. It's a work in progress, but they are eager to learn and understand the value there.

We see this A LOT in our implementations.

We sell & implement a project management financial metrics tool (supporting earned value analyss; google if curious). A key input is always the actual costs of work done, which has to come from the financial system of record.

A horrifying amount of the time, the actual path is through goofy undocumented Excel sheets, because nobody knows how to extract it natively from $FinSys.

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