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Dumb indeed, to give Microsoft Office the shadow of a thought when Libre Office is perfectly good.
Exactly, this meme need not have happened.
Libre Office (at least Calc which is the one I use most) is usable but it has bizarre random slowdowns and crashes relatively frequently, whereas I have never once had issues like that with Microsoft Office. I still use Libre Office (on both Windows and Linux) because it's free but I acknowledge that it has disadvantages.
All of that happens the exact opposite way when you compare Writer with Word.
And Presenter compared to Power Point has the clear answer that you shouldn't use either.
Either way, Excel is the one good piece of software in MS Office. Has always been, and I don't expect it to change in the future. (Except maybe if they decide to make Excel bad.) But that's only as long as it always corrupting anything mildly complex doesn't bother you.
MS is not going to jack with Excel. It's the one reason they sell so much Office, and arguably the only reason the product still exists.
Excel is the one good piece of software in MS Office.
Last time I used MS Office was 10 months ago, and it had a bunch of annoying "features" related to sharing, etc. But PowerPoint has always had some great authoring tools. Sometimes if I was writing an article in LaTeX, I'd still do the figures in PowerPoint.
LibreOffice is a solid substitute, though.
Excel has its fair share of problems and lack of even basic features that should have been included 20 years ago. Anything around diagrams is pure cancer, for example.