I will be able to reproduce results and inspect the exact equations generating these.
Try that with 20yo code (python,c++ whatever)
As a fresh grad I used to hate excel, but now I can totally see why it will never die.
I regularly compile 35 year old C code.
Standards are great like that.
Excel breaks between versions silently. One of my first jobs out of university was to build a pipeline of excel spreadsheet to ensure they were run in the version of excel and windows they were created in. You could not guarantee that you would get the same results otherwise. This was a slight problem for the brokerage I was working at since it had lost them a few million dollars recently.
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/office/troubleshoot/excel/w...