It's fairly likely that your (reasonable) complaint is that you don't know where the buttons are anymore. I edit dozens of somewhat complex documents and don't really spend much time thinking about the interface.

A big thing that came with the roll out of OOXML, along with the controversy, is that all of the weird serialization corruption bugs went away.

> OOXML, along with the controversy, is that all of the weird serialization corruption bugs went away.

My mileage varies.

Edit: perhaps I’m conflating serialization with synchronization bugs or something.