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OceanGate’s ill-fated Titan sub relied on a hand-typed Excel spreadsheet
(www.theverge.com)
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
To write a script, you need someone who can write scripts.
If all you have is someone who can write VLOOKUPs in Excel, and the CEO is too cheap to hire someone, then that's what you use.
I think you're overestimating the competence on display here...
Sounds like they did the lookups by hand actually