A bicycle will never run out of fuel, and is, in a way, more reliable than an airplane. You probably don't want to do London to NYC on a bicycle.

If you don't have online collaboration features, think of documents in terms of q4_financials_v13_final_fixed_with_legal_disclaimers_really_fucking_final (14).xlsx files instead of proper CRDTs synched with a central server, and don't have to worry about how to make your files work on computers (and mobile devices!) that don't have your software installed on them, yes, you will be more reliable. In 2026, those are table-stakes features that most of your users want, and if you don't provide them, you aren't really in the same league as your competitors.

Microsoft Office is no longer just a suite of apps for reading and writing local files. It hasn't been for many years, because a suite of local files is not what you want if you wish to collaborate in real time and own more than one device. Libre Office apparently didn't get the memo yet (maybe the memo used MS Word features which they haven't yet gotten around to implementing)?

On a more serious note, I am deeply saddened that they do not understand this, and seem to believe themselves superior on such a deep level. They are making a great product for the last decade. We do need more digital sovereignty and open source competitors to Microsoft and Google, but if those competitors don't even realize what features the products they're supposedly competing against now have... they have no hope of ever being competitors!