My hate for spreadsheets come from working in institutions that copy/paste around hideous VBA infested sheets for metrics/reporting instead of using a database.
There is a lot of painful excel abuse in business.
Most of the time that happens because the internal tools/databases built or maintained by IT are unusable or just don't do the necessary reporting. Most companies don't have in-house dev teams that are capable of building usable business-relevant tools.
There is a lot of painful excel abuse in business.