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The absolute refusal to change anything is how Excel got where it is today. Businesses and workers alike would shit if they rolled into work one day and Excel was behaving differently.
It's not simply a matter of updating sheets now and again, it's a matter of trust. If Excel was constantly (or ever) evolving, how do you trust it's output?
Oh no, it would force businesses to legitimize their currently half-assed spreadsheet-as-application nonsense.
Asking billion-dollar industries to use proper programming languages, or to use decent version control and configuration management, or at least just to fucking document the particular environment a workflow uses (e.g. the version of Excel the spreadsheet is intended to run in) so that it can be reproducible, is obviously completely unreasonable!
Yeah, I'm sure your bakery's software dev. team is just too lazy to develop proper software.
If the bakery is doing something so complicated with Excel that they'd be screwed if Microsoft fixed the bugs in it, then they should have a dev team!