A Good Product Is Hard to Outgrow

🫧 Open on Bubbles At first glance, it is strange that Excel survived for decades. It is visually primitive. A blank grid of cells. No obvious workflow. No onboarding. Nothing about it suggests that investment banks use it to build billion-dollar financial models or that entire companies run on top of it. Yet they do. Why did this tool survive while newer, more polished, and highly capable products struggled to replace it? How can complex analysis happen inside the same tool that a child can use within minut