Sorry I have to tell you this but no one relays on fucked up format rendering
That’s the thing, people do.
The only reason why people still use it is because of familiarity & it’s mandatory for certain jobs. If it wasn’t for that they’d already be abandoneware
Exactly, people do use and rely on MS Office for rendering. MS Office is the most used implementation out there, because 99% of the corporate world uses it for documents and that makes it the biggest and most used implementation. This is the reason why it is the bug that became the feature and we can’t just ignore it.
To be fair, even Apple on their basic iWork / Pages knows that they should prioritize rendering like Word does and not like the standard says they should do. From experience I can tell you that opening a Word document in Pages usually gives you a rendering that is way more close to Word than with Writer.
This has nothing to do with innovation, to be fair what else innovation do you require in a text document? What Microsoft is doing is working on integration between multiple products and services (some of them AI tools), and that’s where there’s innovation right now, not in the way a image is placed on a document.