Google Docs' Writer (or whatever they call it) is a terrible child's toy, just like Word of Office 365. Functionality is severely limited compared to traditional word processors like LibreOffice.

> Flutter and Google Docs gave up on the DOM because they couldn't get it working well enough, consistently enough across browsers. When you draw to canvas you get more consistent results because you control all the drawing.

And as a side effect, of course if you require the canvas, you will also be able to abuse the canvas, to fingerprint users. It is strange, how those things seemingly always coincide when it comes to Google products.

For the vast majority of what I do, a toy is all I need.

This is the nasty catch-22. It is preferable to have a single tool that handles both simple and complex cases. But sometimes, you just can't make one tool that does both well. If you optimize for the hard cases, then most users will use only a tiny minority of the features.

Microsoft tried to work around that with the "ribbon", which tried to learn which features each individual uses. Users hated it.

So I keep around LibreOffice for the hard stuff, which I write perhaps once a year. And I use Google Docs every day.

> Google Docs' Writer (or whatever they call it) is a terrible child's toy

It's a toy that's making Google a lot of money.