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I've loved LibreOffice since it was OpenOffice.
I use it exclusively for my work as a consultant, and my studies.
One thing I've learned is that people are extraordinarily reluctant to migrate away from MS Office.
Maybe Office is "better". I couldn't care less.
There's not much I wouldn't put up with to avoid the MS ecosystem.
Humans are habit creatures. That's probably why.
They are doing a hell of a job given that one is from a mega corporation and the other from a bunch of volunteers.
Avoiding all this licensing nonsense is reason enough to prefer LibreOffice.
My honest and probably unpopular take is, excel and word are the most complex applications that most people use. They underestimate how much knowledge they have with that specific software - they know how to do everything they need to do and don't have to figure it out.
When they change to something else, it's natural that they don't know how to do all the things that they know how to do on MS.
The problem is, not having encountered this dynamic before, they misconstrue their lack of knowledge about LibreOffice as poor UX.
It's like a weird form of dunning Kruger.
Of course there are exceptions. I'm sure there are some very specific use cases that LO only poorly addresses and that in those cases people really can't do without MS. However I think the above explains the vast majority of LO hesitance.