My first word processor was a TTY (or card punch), and I've watched with bemusement as that parade of editors and word processors, markup and WYSIWYHYG (H=hope). Watched Rob Pike demonstrate an early Unix equivalent.
Do you remember Interleaf? SGML based internal markup, user extensible, with WYSIWYG front end. I used the original Word on Mac, and have, like you, watched the awful progression of bloat and deliberate incompatibility.
The end can't come soon enough.
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