I used to say Excel was the only truly useful, well-designed piece of software Microsoft ever made. It's an amazing example of dataflow programming and for that reason alone it's worthy of study.
Alas, Microsoft has enshittified it. Excel used to be a standalone program, then they made it online with the offline version hard to find. I bought that offline version only to discover it would stop working if it didn't phone home to the mothership every 30 days. Now (at least for my Mac version) it has stopped working entirely, even if I let it phone home.
I probably have a cause of action against Microsoft for this, but life's too short to wade into a legal battle with a sewage company and Libre Office is available and I'm switching to Linux anyway.
Alas, Microsoft has enshittified it. Excel used to be a standalone program, then they made it online with the offline version hard to find. I bought that offline version only to discover it would stop working if it didn't phone home to the mothership every 30 days. Now (at least for my Mac version) it has stopped working entirely, even if I let it phone home.
I probably have a cause of action against Microsoft for this, but life's too short to wade into a legal battle with a sewage company and Libre Office is available and I'm switching to Linux anyway.