[catchclose8919]

There's many open-source alternatives to Excel. Rarely used, but it settles any fear of lock in.

This also made the area palatable for other commercial competitors to enter the space - Google-sheets drive A TON of enterprise org work nowadays.

You could say that open-source alternatives immensely popularized spreadsheets and resulted in the very nice ecosystem we have now.

Sure, heave finance user stick to MS Excell because MS is pressured to cater very well to their needs, else they will move away to other free or paid alternatives.

Also, there's a reason why multi-dimensional spreadheets are not more popular despite solving so many problems of regular spreadheets: all are proprietary and very different one from another - you probably pick smth like Quantrix (https://quantrix.com/products/quantrix-modeler/), and you'd get insane prices and 100% lock-in... better stick to Excell and/or its open-source and/or free alternatives despite being a worse tool :)

[pjmlp]

Since when is Google sheets not proprietary?