alt Hacker NewsWord is better than the alternatives. In Germany they keep going through the cycle of open source zealots mandating that government workers use off-brand office suites and then their unions going on strike to get Word back.
For a while I thought it was annoying that Word wanted to save my documents in the cloud but then I realized I could keep my lifestyle diary for my nutritionist in Word and update it on my iPad on the go and it works great.
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> cycle of open source zealots
This is a pretty biased take. If there is anything the world is finally learning, it is that being completely dependent (not only for functionality but also availability) on a single vendor operating from a potentially uncooperative government, is not a great position to be in.
I disagree with your use of the word zealot but I agree, MS Office is objectively the best office suite. I no longer use it daily, but anybody arguing otherwise has: never used it, never tried the alternatives to see how bad it can be, doesn't do collaborative work, or doesn't need any features beyond bold/italic. For example I can do most of my coding in Notepad, but it's still a very inferior experience. I feel the same way about MS Office vs LibreOffice.
That being said let's keep in mind that the latest wave of moving-away-from-MS-Office is using OnlyOffice this time and I believe it might work. OnlyOffice actually wants to entice MS Office users. And thus it is more compatible, has a much closer/better UX, and despite being a web app it is somehow more responsive than LibreOffice.