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Your points are definitely valid criticisms.

And the world (for CS-type folks) would certainly be better. For everyone else, I think it would be a whole lot worse. I don't think its a stretch to say excel had enabled billions (trillions?) of dollars to be realized without the need for CS staff, where CS/software purchases would have otherwise been required. I wonder if this is partly why its a reoccurring meme on HN, which has a heavy CS following?