"Excel" became a synonym for spreadsheets. There are millions of SMEs, today, running on spreadsheets that aren't Excel. My wife runs her little SME with her paid-for Google Workspace / G Suite: she and her employees are happily filling 'em little cells from the browser in their Google world (for better or worse). There are millions of SMEs like these.
I should know better and run some spreadsheet locally (or maybe use Emacs, which of course can do simple spreadsheet stuff) but I don't bother: I use Google spreadsheets for my VAT, tax, fuel/car mileage computation etc.
Many people around me do just that: they never used any advanced spreadsheet feature and Google spreadsheet is sufficient.
It's as if anyone using GMail who eventually discovered the "Google Drive" then realized he had "Excel" there too (it's Google spreadsheet but they don't care, they still call it Excel). How many people are using GMail?
I also know, shocker, one Apple afficionado using Apple numbers although the Apple users I know typically have GMail / Google spreadsheet.
Now here's the funny kicker: besides during that one gig in a 50 K employees boat, I don't know anyone still using Excel. And, oh the irony, at that gig I was tasked with porting a spreadsheet to a dedicated app.
Of all the Mac laptop users who don't bother having a desktop anymore... Certainly there are some (like my wife) who need a spreadsheet right? Are these people actually all buying Excel to run it on their Mac? Or are Mac users not spreadsheet users!?
I'm confused.
To me a more correct article title would be:
"Spreadsheet never dies" (and "Excel" became a synonym for "spreadsheet").