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by ackbar03 2746 days ago
I don't think it's the fear of losing jobs, it's more because of the flexibility it offers. There's a lot of adhoc adjustments / corrections to data / formulas that require a lot of flexibility and a coded program won't be able to manage it that well. I used to do a lot of my stuff with vba but in the end I would still use excel formulas when I could