I'll try to explain one last time. Docs is built from the ground up to support real-time collaborative editing, because that's how the Web works. I don't speak

I'll try to explain one last time. Docs is built from the ground up to support real-time collaborative editing, because that's how the Web works. I don't speak for anyone involved with Docs, but I wouldn't expect it to be rearchitected to support the use case you're asking for because it's a major change that introduces tremendous complexity such as: manual saves, document locking, whole document collisions, etc.