If you are willing to leave behind rich text/word processing entirely (as I mostly have), it's not really an issue. It's everyone else who is so married to this

If you are willing to leave behind rich text/word processing entirely (as I mostly have), it's not really an issue. It's everyone else who is so married to this idea which is a much harder nut to crack. The proliferation of many smaller writing apps (iAWriter, Byword, 1Writer, and on and on) on macOS means that many of these people probably could leave Word if they tried or switch to a plaintext app which can give you a styled preview (ahem, BBEdit) and they would be fine. Almost all of the features are there. It's just the comfort of Word as a known thing and the idea of how people use computers to create text which prevents them from taking that leap of faith.