Re: Why this happens
Because they haven't been told the full/correct requirements, clearly.
Rather, they had too many requirements and so the various hacks are fighting each other.
CEO's/CTO's are yelling at Microsoft: "Make what we are doing here at $BigCorp work in Excel NOW - or ELSE", Programmers get told: "Make work, or Else".
Programmers of course code what they are told, like this:
"Make Work"
else
"Make Work"
else
"Make Work" ....
Thus cell interpretation logic became a pachinko machine, rather than a state machine.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pachinko
Same with Word. MS could have made on-the-fly formatting optional and used style-sheet only - except - some people want to use on-the-fly formatting and don't want to select an option "or Else". So Word does BOTH, which sucks when one gets the work of an "on-the-fly"-formatter.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
