Ditching Excel for Python in a legacy industry
&gt; At the end of the day, making a change in an Excel sheet is easy; understanding formulas is achievable; but learning to code is hard.<p>This is the crux of the matter. I would guess that there are more than an order of magnitude Excel users than Python programmers. Python is great if you already know programming, but expecting domain experts to learn Python in large numbers is going to be a daunting barrier.