Did you know that Excel was originally written for the Mac?
All the PC people poo-pooed it at the time. That was way back when Gates worked with Jobs, and before Gates decided to go to the dark side.
I know, because I used Excel on my Mac back then, and had to tolerate the sneers of my “professional” friends who refused to even try Excel.
Most Excel users, even 'power users' use about 10% of Excel functionality.
I found the transition from Lotus 1-2-3 to Excel difficult at first. Excel with VBA is almost magical.
I have Excel and Word on my year old Mac mini and have never used VM. It works great.
I have never updated so I have a a really old program but it works great.
I have had similar disgust with PC bigots in the past. My "professional" co-workers in the mid-1980s refused to use mice or GUI systems because they said they were only for children, and would never be seen on a real PC. They would refuse to look at a Mac because it had a mouse and GUI. Until Microsoft copied Apple and started putting it on PCs. Then it was wonderful. I get sick of all the B.S. put out by the Microsoft/PC crowd, they make it up as they go.
BTW, I liked Visicalc, Supercalc, Lotus 1-2-3, but Excel doomed them all. Things change over time, and history is forgotten.