They could even have it on by default, or rather, have “Excel NG/Matrix” be an optional no-quirk behaviour regimen.

They could have a scripting environment variable that is “quirkkMode=ON” by default and would maintain backwards compatibility at the small expense of needing to specify sane behaviour as an exceptional circumstance: just another line of boilerplate.

There’s a lot of things they could do. They’ve no doubt considered all of them and then some, and yet they‘c’è decided to do almost nothing. I suppose that says something about the disconnect between how we and they perceive their incentives, but I’m not sure what that assertion is.

Exactly, add a checkbox in the settings menu and the problem is solved for everyone.

> "Exactly, add a checkbox in the settings menu and the problem is solved for everyone."

A million checkboxes in the settings menu later, people will be griping that "Excel is terrible for having all these crazy settings to deal with!"

In other words, a quirks mode.