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Spreadsheets basically run entire massive companies. What is the standard of complexity which this fails to meet?


Pretty much anywhere that depends heavily on spreadsheets also depends heavily on humans in complex ways. Humans are checking that different versions of the spreadsheet haven't gone out of sync, have been sent to the right people, are only updated when they are supposed to be, etc.




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