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Doing these things is not easy and they take a lot of time and effort. But from a short look at the article it seems that there were issues with expectations:
Like what do you expect when using an ODF first tool for OpenXML (Microsoft Office) documents? Euro-Office would be a better fit, from my ONLYOFFICE experience. It's not perfect but it's the more drop-in solution for their use case. It's sad that this has come to an end because of what a good, experienced Linux user could tell them even before they began.
It's always going to be a band-aid ripping moment, switching from MS Office to anything else.
When I switched to Linux on my personal setups, it was at a time when Windows and Office were so different to what I was used to, I'd have to retool and retrain anyway. From what I hear from some of my white collar acquaintances, that's basically coming. I've been hearing things like "I wrote this spreadsheet 20 years ago, it's worked fine for decades, and now it's breaking because they're disabling VBA and it can't run from OneDrive." So I think we're going to enter an era when all the things that probably shouldn't have been implemented in Excel are gonna stop working.
It's like they went straight for the most unintuitive option for MS Office users. Besides EuroOffice, LibreOffice (even OnlyOffice) would have been better.