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I don't use most features of Office, so Docs is much cleaner. Much better for collaboration too.

It's OK at best there's quite a few features missing that get in the way when I use it for client work

- Can't have numbered headings without them indenting - No image captions (have to use a separate styled paragraph underneath - Not enough text styles (only need a couple more)

There’s more than those but they're the ones I run into most frequently

Suspect the issue is no-one in Google uses Docs for writing documents that need quality formatting and production, sure they write lots of docs in it but how many are going to paying clients etc.

What alternatives do you suggest?

For general purpose, MS Office or LibreOffice? I tried GDocs once, I found some features missing like I couldn't do something (I'm forgotting what it was. It was some months ago and I never used GDocs again and totally turned my back to it).

I am sure the Google Docs developers would find your observation incredibly valuable.

I doubt they'd mind improving it even if I tell them.