Um, Word has pretty much always started in a second or two even on computers from the year 2000. You're picking on the wrong app there: Microsoft was notorious

Um, Word has pretty much always started in a second or two even on computers from the year 2000. You're picking on the wrong app there: Microsoft was notorious for caring about startup time of their Office suite and going to tremendous lengths to improve it. Meanwhile, how fast Google Docs loads depends entirely on the speed of my internet connection at the time. Good luck even opening it at all if your connection is crappy, flaky, if any of the ISPs between you and Google have congestion issues, or if there's a transient latency problem in one of the dozens of server pools that makes up an app like Docs.