Perhaps this is an aesthetic preference, and obviously I can just delete the column and row after the fact (easier said than done in a spreadsheet with 60 tabs) but I would really like to have a command-line option to not have these ugly and redundant numbers in Excel format output:
This is as simple as passing header=False, index=False to pandas.DataFrame.to_excel here:
https://github.com/camelot-dev/camelot/blob/master/camelot/core.py#L1007
Arguably it should even be the default!