I share your opinion. As a developer, I do not like Excel and the scripting environment around it, but I realize that I am not the target audience: it’s an incredible tool for analysts, managers and whatnot to explore and analyze data.

I work with a lot of data in my daily life, and see most BI tools struggling to recreate the same functionality that Excel offers, often failing in the process.

People try to recreate the Excel experience online too much, forgetting that Excel itself is a really solid solution and it’s worth taking serious.