“Excel is far superior to anything that attempts to ape it.”
But not as good as Lotus was. Like Word is far inferior to WordPerfect for DOS. (When WP transitioned to Windows format it lost a lot of functionality.)
My absolute favorite feature of WP back in the day was "reveal codes". (F7 IIRC). It was a Godsend for fixing formatting issues. It's one of the few features that I'd really love to see in OpenOffice.