I don't know if this is the reason but it is somewhat trivial to roll your own. This is actually close to the story of how I became a programmer in the first place. 17 years ago or so, I made something like this in Excel and figured out how to populate the data from the Yahoo! Finance API, then learned about FRED, BLS, other sources of possibly relevant economic data, but still doing everything in Excel, eventually deciding to learn C++ since I'd heard it was the industry standard for finance. I caught the bug, ended up being more into software than finance specifically, and the rest is history. My motivation at the time was this was the middle of the big global financial crisis, everything had tanked, and it seemed like a great time to get in low. Buying my first house in 2009 was probably the most advantageous thing I did, though I was at least able to do that by tax-free early liquidation of an IRA that was full of self-picked stocks.
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