Here is an interesting recent job posting for a 6 month engagement:
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Candidate will be responsible to provide ad-hoc reporting and analysis
support to mid and Sr. management for internal and external IT
performance metrics using Microsoft Excel ONLY.

Expert level experience in MS Excel is required. However, no VBA is
required and will not be used. In fact, VBA will be frowned upon if it
is used.
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Seems to me the only other alternative solution is VSTO/interopt ...
using C# or VB.NET. All indications are that Microsoft is pushing in
this direction as well....and away from VBA. Any comments ?