But Pages is much more ergonomic, lightweight, and native on a Mac. There’s not a likely scenario where I’d use LibreOffice over Pages.
It is ironic, that libreoffice solves this the best, by being truly cross platform and not requiring special software to be purchased on the receiving end: yet it is the momentum of Microsoft Word that would instead hamper adoption of other word processors.
I am thinking about this, because the reason I would choose not to use Pages, is so that I can share my documents to other companies or even people in my company who may not have a Mac.
* Install UX (how difficult, what pop-ups).
* First time user experience.
* Launch speed.
* Consistency with OS (such as using native file dialogs, hotkeys).
* Export Options (perhaps compatibility too).
* Spellchecker (especially if the OS is configured in another language than US english and the processor can detect it).
* Input latency.
I wonder if there would be more, though of this list I think LibreOffice would do very fairly compared to Pages.app and MS Word for Mac.
Disingenuous? More like realistic.
I mean this ultimately boils down to “is inconsistent with the design of the rest of the computing experience.” People who care about good, consistent design and can afford to pay for it are Apple’s core market.