> It’s one of the most infuriating and dangerous behaviors I have ever encountered. Excel silently truncates data.

That's a problem, sure, but not the one sixothree is complaining about.

> The problem isn’t assuming a display format for data

Your problem might not be, but that’s exactly the problem sixothree is complaining about that the post you are responding to addresses, so while your post references a valid complaint, it is a complete non-sequitur as a response.