I used to work at an accounting/consulting firm who were dead set on writing business applications in VBA within Excel. The code was embedded in the notebook, and to distribute the software was sending the latest version of the Excel file. This made version control virtually impossible, and we would instead combine our work manually.
I cannot recommend having tech-illiterate people lead software projects.
How is an article labeled “Opinion” ever a thing you learned? This is not fact. Post this literally anywhere else instead of trying to disguise your opinion as fact.