As a bioinformatician I'm not too fond of this shift. Software should be sculpted around our needs, not the other way around. It's basically submitting to the fact that we've stubbed our toes hundreds of times to the exact same rock and never learned.

But then again, I use Excel rarely, usually only at the very end of some analysis (even then I prefer R/Python libraries for visuals). So I do have sympathy for wet-lab researchers who rely heavily on Excel.