Document recovery will still lose a couple of minutes of work, or sometimes tells you your files is corrupted infortunatly.

But even without that, it's more about your workflow being turned sub optimal that hurts.

When I open VSCode, Inkscape or Thunderbird, I don't have to think about loosing my data. That makes things smoother :)

Sure. I guess im just old enough to remember the 1990s Microsoft Office shitshow.

Oh, I'm with you on this one. So many scars, from so many different shapes of blades.

That's why I'm still using LO and not MSO, despite the fact it's now more stable.

I was about to post a similar comment. One of the reasons was that before memory protection (that different hardware already for ages) any rogue pointer could crash any other application or the OS. Developing software was an exercise of rebooting Windows. Ah, the reset button!

can applications remind users to save the document once before the autosave kicks in? i was burned many times before i actually read it somewhere. this should be in the quick start somewhere