why does it matter for a word doc. At the end of the day, what matters is the doc file you save. that's your artifact. Weather you use a cli tool, agent or ms word to create that file doesn't matter as long as the content is correct and the person who receives the file can open it.

It's not even $25, it more like $10 / seat.

Because Wordcraft is faster and more stable than Word. Word rarely crashes, but it does freeze. Wordcraft is freezing about 1/2 as often as Word. For the daily grinding out docs, it's way more viable than Openoffice.

But mostly, because having a workflow entirely dependent on a single vendor seems like something to avoid if possible.

The last formatting bug I encountered was last week. Claude identified, patched, and pushed in 10 minutes.

It doesn't do VBA. However, porting VBA to WC macros is trivial for llms.

25 bucks is 25 bucks. I also feel that losing your license because you tried to save 25 bucks on MS Word seems unlikely (not legal advice).

Why become hostage to a multibillion conglomerate for "editing text"? It's asinine what people are using Word for. If engineering types need special syntax handling I get it, but lawyers.. accountants.. my god man, plain text is fine with some semi-fancy markup a la markdown renderers these days. Some tables, some red lines, some fonts.. It's trivial. It was not in the 80s but it is now.

It handles complex redlines, legal brief formatting, etc.

When you convert to pdf, it typically produces identical content streams to Word.

All your points are laughably trivial features. We don't "Word" for that bullshit.