Though I have to reach the heights of that formula, I keep coming back to Excel for the same reason that I come back to Perl. Not because it's always the best tool for the job, but because it's the lingua franca in many contexts. If I create the thing in Excel, then I know I can hand it off to someone else and they will both know how to run it, and, in a pinch, how to change it.
With any other tool, there would eventually be an onboarding process not just for the thing I built, but also for the tool I built it in. Not with Excel – that will just run, whereever you go.
With any other tool, there would eventually be an onboarding process not just for the thing I built, but also for the tool I built it in. Not with Excel – that will just run, whereever you go.