Again, this saying has a nuance people often miss.
You don’t blame your tools.
Not all tools. Not tools forced upon by some archaic industrial standard or habit. Not stupid tools you’d never use otherwise but have no choice.
Excel has many quirks, but I'm still very grateful that it exists, for quickly putting together some numbers and still being able to change the inputs to my formulas.
That’s nice, but Excel didn’t invent spreadsheets. It invented adding BS to them and if it didn’t exist, you’d still have WhateverCalc successor available at the moment.
You don’t blame your tools.
Not all tools. Not tools forced upon by some archaic industrial standard or habit. Not stupid tools you’d never use otherwise but have no choice.
Excel has many quirks, but I'm still very grateful that it exists, for quickly putting together some numbers and still being able to change the inputs to my formulas.
That’s nice, but Excel didn’t invent spreadsheets. It invented adding BS to them and if it didn’t exist, you’d still have WhateverCalc successor available at the moment.