Comment by Andy_G11

Excel is extremely accessible, which is both a strength and a weakness. People who are complete noobs are quite happy to open up Excel and pull together some logic and data with very little regard for the constraints of the tool. Then they can save it and email it to you and you can work with it. It is the epitomy of 'move fast and break things'. Try getting them to pull together a quick JavaScript file to show you what they are thinking... Whichever way Excel develops, I hope that it doesn't put off the noobs from their penchant to have a go because as much as there is the possibility for the tool to go horribly wrong, elevating it out of reach of the layman would be worse.