I thought I had died and gone to heaven when I used Wordstar 2 on an Adam Osborn CPM system back in the day before Bill got the nod from Big Blue.

I'm wondering, in all that time, from Wordstar through Word Perfect and on to the bloatware of Microsoft, why hasn't someone carved out a word processor for writers?
 It is not like there is no market there.

As you pointed out. We really don't need a ton of features to have the tool we need.

Even with the turn-it-off-and-it-will-be-acceptable, that's what we have, something that is acceptable. Today. Kinda sorta. And, I'm guessing expensive. With acceptable we still wait for the next one, hoping it will be the one.

Some how that big  Corporation likes ol flow, good ol cash flow better than that. The
"one" lives only in our imagination.

The word processor search is a lot like watching a dog at the dog track chase the electric driven rabbit.  I got tired of betting every race.