In general, you adapt to the excel owner's quirks, not vice versa. If you don't like it you should create an excel sheet of your own and copy/paste, which people also do.

I knew a project manager who's job seemed to be reconciling multiple versions of a spreadsheet with different authors.

Excel files yes, but GSuite/MSOffice365 spreadsheets easily run company technical/customer goal trackers or log4j upgrade emergency status/plan with hundreds of engineers contributing.