Yep. The slow-down it had in responsiveness once you got the thick green cell-highlight cursor was sooo noticeable I immediately though it was a downgrade.

I remember the original dev's for the Excel application used to pride themselves on its performance. I don't know what happened, except probably upper-management overrule.

yeah, i was able to successfully use 2003 until 2018 at which point I could no longer get it to work sufficiently in whatever build I had of win10

I then used 2010 (least bad new version it seemed) until now... mixed feelings about even more "nu" excel...

I look forward to when I'm no longer using excel