> The company I've founded in 2007 never ever sent out any document in MS Office format, never owned any copy of MS Office, and we survived since then just fine.
It's great that it worked out for you, but that's just not the case in the most business environments I have been dealing with. When a person sends out a document to a customer, and it turns out that customer didn't see the content as intended, alternatives get deleted and MS Office gets reintroduced.
Just to be clear, I'm not a proponent of MS Office. As a matter of fact I run on Mac and Linux and don't have much touching points with Windows, but MS Office is simply a necessity in most business environments.
> _"nah... I don't want any changes, I'd rather keep myself and the world vendorlocked into proprietary software"_
People don't have a problem changing if the change doesn't break their work(flows). The fact that Internet Explorer is pretty much dead proves it - everyone switched to Chrome although is different.
MS Office document format support is simply not good enough on any alternative (of which Libre Office is the only serious contender).
I have tried to switch to Libre Office on multiple occasions over the years, but every time I gave up after couple of weeks of frustration, because I couldn't collaborate on shared documents. Either the stuff I created in Libre Office looked different when others open it in MS Office, or I was breaking the documents for other people.
I don't consider MS Office to be better - it's simply that the alternatives are not compatible.
I'm glad this microservices hype is coming to an end. So many people have jumped on the hype train, introducing so much unnecessary complexity into their environments.