This calls to mind a quote from Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian:

  It makes no difference what men think of war, said the judge. 
  War endures. As well ask men what they think of stone. War 
  was always here. Before man was, war waited for him. The 
  ultimate trade awaiting its ultimate practitioner. That is 
  the way it was and will be. That way and not some other way.

Just swap our war for Excel! "It makes no difference what men think of Excel, said the judge. Excel endures. As well ask men what they think of stone."