Disclosure: I work at Google
I really with that team would bring it up to feature parity similar to how Marissa Mayer grabbed everything she could from AdWords in terms of features and UI design.
So the statement I responded to:
>"Anything that you'd normally do in Office is done on Google for Work at Google."
...is just not accurate. Not to mention other super basic things like a lot of the formatting options, etc. Those most certainly are basic user needs, and you can't do half the formatting things you can do in Excel.
You are forced to use it, but seemingly nobody is allowed to improve it.
I too use it daily as my employer is a google apps customer. Which is why I am so frustrated and really need to vent about how featureless it is, and especially about how its improvement trajectory is so flat.
You also mentioned animations and transitions for slides. Personally I like the minimalistic use of slides (it should be background to what you're actually talking about, not taking center-stage). But that's the developer in me, and I'm sure lots of business-like people out there prefer the pretty and animations.
Importing vectors like .eps is not possible.
Creating a new document to a directory using your business template is impossible.
Copies of documents are created in root directory. Moving requires navigating in a tiny window without search. (Makes template usage even worse.)
There are no small caps.
You can't load custom fonts.
No log axis in Sheets. (There is histogram though so it's better than Excel!)
No backups, no change management, easy to destroy whole google drive by one user dragging wrong. NOBODY SHOULD EVER DRAG ANYTHING.