The last part when Excel is entering the story, brings memories of Joel Spolosky, AKA founder of Stack Overflow and other companies, who was one of the early team members of Excel development ---

https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2006/06/16/my-first-billg-rev...

and as stated there

    The only thing that made it look reasonable was 
    that it looked great compared to Lotus macros, 
    which were nothing more than a sequence of 
    keystrokes entered as a long string into a 
    worksheet cell.