Thing is, they are also the common workaround solution for savy office workers that don't want to wait for the IT department if it exists, or some outsourced consultancy, to finally deliver something that only does half the job they need.

So far no one has managed to deliver an alternative to spreedsheets that fix this issue, doesn't matter if we can do much better in Python, Java, C# whatever, if it is always over budget and only covers half of the work.

I know, I have taken part in such project, and it run over budget because there was always that little workflow super easy to do in Excel and they would refuse to adopt the tool if it didn't cover that workflow as well.