Microsoft keeps removing or abandoning the Excel features that made it so useful

Technology has a habit of quietly removing things we thought would be around forever. Floppy disks gave way to USB drives, film cameras were lost to digital photography, and vinyl was barged out of the way by CDs and streaming before making an unexpected comeback. Sometimes the replacement is better, but other times you spend years wondering why someone decided the old way needed fixing. Excel has had plenty of those moments.

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