I think you vaaastly overestimate how excel is used by most users
replyif anything, excel exceeds in being MOUSE-driven - it's intuitive in what you press and what you drag
and that's kinda my problem with the TFA - author is not representative of typical user. Mouse interaction is the king
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replyScrewing with a keyboard combo in Excel... like Shift-Space to highlight a row... is like an IDE deciding to swap the key-bindings for '{' and '['. You'd have entire accounting and marketing departments in rebellion.
replyDevs consistently underestimate how many power users of Excel there are, and often don't understand how they operate.
Maybe by most users, but not by most users who use it for many hours daily for professional tasks (i.e. not just as a kind of tabular list editor).
replyBasically everyone in a white collar job who is NOT a developer is using Excel. I'm a developer, even I have to use Excel at work.
reply"Most users" are not who choose business software.
reply> UI constantly shuffling around between updates.
replyand then 365 came along ... an option to pull stock market data here, a LinkedIn connection there, oh look a wild copilot button appeared.