Probably because it's rarely portable. Or, at least, it was that way in the past. MS products of the late 90's/early 2000's come to mind. Since then I've relied

Probably because it's rarely portable. Or, at least, it was that way in the past. MS products of the late 90's/early 2000's come to mind. Since then I've relied as much as possible on plain text. Once bitten, twice shy… though I secretly dream of writing decent code with help from a something graphical.