I've been able to avoid Word while having all the features you tout in products less expensive and less inclined to try to make decisions for me which make life unnecessarily difficult. I even manage to deliver my manuscripts in Word format without ever opening Word.

I suppose should the time come when I have no choice but to work in Word and in Windows, it's good to know the latest version is better than its been since, well, about 1987, when version 3 was replaced by more than two decades of Word nightmare.

I'm just not convinced that at some critical moment, the new Word isn't going to pull a, well, a Word on you and destroy everything you've done. Microsoft has not earned that trust.