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I'm quite happy with libreoffice.
It can be a piece of crap sometimes but less so than MS Office.
With LO I have a passionate love-hate relationship.
Same sentiments, especially with Libre Office Calc.
I love that it's got a lot of useful features, to the point that almost everything I used to do with MS Excel and Google Sheets can be done in LO Calc, but stray a bit further out and even looking for documentation can be a huge pain.
It's a combination of limited (if at all available) documentation for less-than-mainstream features, and the help forum user knee-jerk replies of “if you don't like it, go back to MS/Google,” “if you want it so badly go program it yourself”, or even various replies that can be summed up as “don't even bother asking.”
I never would ever entertain asking a question on the various LO help fora because of this.
However, I still use Libre Office since it's useful, and for my purposes, almost as good as the alternatives. It's the vocal userbase's anti-normie stance that usually fuels my hate for it.