This echoes the Joel On Software Classic, "In Defense of Not-Invented-Here-Syndrome", which gives some of the reasons Microsoft Excel won the spreadsheet wars. Of particular note:
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“The Excel development team will never accept it,” he said. “You know their motto? ‘Find the dependencies — and eliminate them.’ They’ll never go for something with so many dependencies.”
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“The Excel development team will never accept it,” he said. “You know their motto? ‘Find the dependencies — and eliminate them.’ They’ll never go for something with so many dependencies.”
https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2001/10/14/in-defense-of-not-...