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I love and use LibreOffice, but I do find Calc much harder to work with than Excel. PivotTables, sortable lists with locked headings and sort-buttons, even simply setting print area were all harder for me to get used to and implement on Calc than Excel.
I persist because I like the goal of FOSS, and it's "good enough" for my usage, I can definitely understand when people show frustrations - especially power users that have worked with MS Office for decades.
I like to think of libreoffice calc as a spreadsheet program, it's for running calculations on cells, that's it.
Excel was, but is no longer, just a spreadsheet program. Many things have been smashed into it that could have been better implemented separately, but when you're trying to tie down all office work to your single office suite, a hammer's gotta hammer. So they hammered a lot of those uses into excel to keep office workers tied to it. Admittedly, that does make it easier for office work since you don't need to train employees in multiple programs, you give them excel and teach them functions as they need them.