They could easily do that. But they want to use their Word component to compose replies to emails. So it needs to go through the WordHTML at some point.. And f

They could easily do that. But they want to use their Word component to compose replies to emails. So it needs to go through the WordHTML at some point.. And from that perspective, it's better to break the mail as it's coming in (so the sender gets blamed) rather than at the moment the user clicks reply.