Then maybe there is no disagreement.
Resolved: Students should learn about data management, collection, analysis, and effective communication of data in various formats. Further the fundamentals of these skills should be started in age appropriate ways in the primary grades, and build on the skills through High School. Spreadsheets are one tool of that goal.
My WAG is that the big push over the next several years will need to become implementation of AI tools to organize and create and to query the datasets, teaching students to understand what they need to get the AI to produce, why, and to query it in the most useful ways. Spreadsheets may be a portion of that. But the bigger job is recognizing garbage in and faulty analysis.
AI in this way is what calculators were to some of us in High School, and computers with Word to my kids. Again this is not decades. The AI tools are already built into Excel and Google products, and Claude 3 is supposedly amazing at handling data in various formats, including but not limited to creation and analysis of spreadsheets.
Back to learning clocks reading in early grades … about time maybe? 