Using Large Excel files in Power Apps

We all know that Excel isn't a good place to store your Power Apps data in. Still way to often developers use large Excel files for their Power apps data. But why is Excel not a good data source? Why do people still use it? And why are Excel files supported as datasources in Power apps? What are the limitations that we need to consider?
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