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The fix to this problem that the entire world complains about but doesn't bother googling is like, 3 clicks total in 99% of cases.
To be fair, it's a lot of work if 99% of the entire world needs to click 3 times.
I sometimes wonder if Microsoft is deliberately making a shit product just to keep people employed.
I'd argue excel is one of their better products. Still with a LOT of annoying little quirks, but nonetheless extremely useful.
The complaint about date formatting is a skill issue, and this particular post I enjoy and makes me chuckle whenever I see it because sometimes it can get it wrong, but it would never get 12.5 wrong unless you manually have formatted it as a date and not General.