[dragonwriter]

> Google Sheets has changed quite a bit over those "2 to 3 years", being a web app and all, Excel hasn't.

Excel 2013 actually has changed from Excel 2010.

[anxiousest]

Perhaps, I doubt the change was as dramatic though, considering it's not just the app itself that underwent transformation but also browsers and the web platform as a whole. But then again we're talking about spreadsheet software.