Everything is relative and evidently a (good) programmer can wield even more &quot;power&quot;  another factor but that comes with its own shortcomings in terms of cost, time, maintenance etc.<p>I stand by the point that Excel is an extremely powerful tool. It is very easy as a developer to dismiss that but for the &quot;normal&quot; people in the world the productivity gains it affords (with a much smaller learning curve cf. programming) are huge.