Yeah, I actually saw a presentation at Microsoft's Mix (the web-oriented conference they ran for a while) about the ribbon. I never loved the ribbon but it was really an attempt to deal with all the features that maybe 1% (at most) of users ever utilized but that those (many different) 1%s REALLY cared about.

One of the reasons I like Google Workplace. I'm mostly not a power user these days so the simpler option set really works for me even if I very rarely run into something I can't quite do like I'd prefer.