Should excel and other microsoft office products or their competitors be as large a part of our work today as they are?

Yes today’s world is fully with computers and internet.

Explanation:

People today does not maintain the classical file system where they physically store document. Nowadays, only the Government registration and other formalities are being pen and paper work.

All other things are maintained digitally where the Microsoft office products or their competitors come and support us.

So it becomes mandatory to use office tools to maintain records, do calculation, present content etc. So irrespective of the type of company usage of office document became mandatory.