No Excel with vim bindings or model editing. Excel has its own set of arcane keybindings that make using it really fast. If you are a heavy user, you can print out a reference sheet just like you did with vim when you started out.
Org-mode is not an alternative, there is zero overlap in functionality between it and Excel.
Or is the default Excel good enough to warrant relearning all the navigation hotkeys?
And how is org-mode as an alternative?