Doing better than Apache, but is that saying much?

Ribbon is easy to use on 1280x1024. Monitors that size are really cheap and very common place. Eventually you'll buy a new monitor. Currently 1900x1080 is available for a great price. Anything lower than around 1000 vertical and it gets cumbersome if the ribbon is open all the time. However, you can easily make it work like a menu bar. It's not perfect with a low resolution laptop screen, but in those cases it is not just the screen; you also have to deal with a crappy keyboard and mouse.

If your big issues aren't a big issue at all, then maybe visit some companies / heavy MS Excel users sometimes. It took me quite some time to get used to the ribbon interface (habit). But it was just habit. Ribbon mostly tries to show me stuff that is useful. IMO it way better makes use of screen space.

"Hidden" functionality like "remove duplicates" now actually is discovered by a few. "AutoFilter" and sorting is used way more often by people noticing it themselves. Unlike before...