Almost every time I open up a Word document in LibreOffice there is something missing or wrong. It's because the Word document files does not have an open stand

Almost every time I open up a Word document in LibreOffice there is something missing or wrong. It's because the Word document files does not have an open standardized format. Having a standard format means that you can build on-top, it enables developers to build add-ons like real time collaboration, and version control, instead of having it built into the app like in Word. A standard format also allows other document viewers and conversions between different formats. Microsoft have spent a lot of money buying or bullying competitors to Word, and they keep the format incompatible with other software because the main selling advantage for Word is that it's compatible with Word itself which has become an enterprise standard. Even Microsoft engineers think the word format is shit. But it's kept like that because of business reasons. If you want quality tools you should choose an open format, then buy the best tools for that format. There are plenty of "what you see is what you get" editors for open formats. But many people prefer to edit human readable source code directly in order to get precision - so the document look exactly how they want it to look. And also use tools like Git or Mercurial to collaborate by sharing code diff. With an open standard you as the user are in control, especially if the source code is human readable. Not everyone wants to consume software like force fed broiler chickens.