I think people care more about their phones than wether they use Goole docs or Word to put together a report at work which nobody is really going to read and if they do they'll ask for a PDF print out anyway and not the document itself.

Same for other products. If OneDrive or MS Teams was all of a sudden really annoying to use on iOS and Android, but Slack and Google Meet would work really reliably and smoothly then I think a lot of people would just starting to use the non Microsoft alternative because nobody likes to deal with annoyances on a daily basis. We have seen this already, when Zoom came about it captured a huge part of the market really rapidly because it did something so much better than Teams did before. It didn't even require a dark pattern, now imagine how many more would have left Teams if dark patterns would have helped on top of that.

You massively underestimate how much business world (corporate especially) depends on MS Office and how deeply integrated it is into companies eco systems.

And how little they can care about user experience if something ticks all other boxes.

> They don't because they can't. People use ms programs for their daily work, phones are secondary.

I suspect many, many more people globally (and in the US) use a smartphone than use a desktop with MS products on it daily.

Work puts food on the table though, Instagram does not