[_Nat_]

Great to see Excel adding more features!

The argument I've heard against doing this sorta thing was that they wanted to keep Excel simple enough to not alienate many non-technical users, sorta forcing it to be a simple, accessible environment for everyone.

It'll be neat to see how the user-base adapts to a more powerful feature-set. I mean, it'd seem like a lot of folks will be thrilled, finally having some extra functionality without having to use macros/VBA/VSTO/COM/etc., though how might non-technical folks feel about a coworker sending them a spreadsheet with function-values?

[SirSourdough]

Most organizations I have seen already only have a couple people who can actually make and edit the advanced sheets used by the org and lots of people who use those sheets with a very, very rudimentary knowledge of Excel to generally get their jobs done.

I don't really see the addition of new advanced functionality changing that paradigm.