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I'm curious why people bother tolerating modern versions of MS Office when they could instead use an offline version like 2019 and call it a day?

Are the more recent versions really that necessary or useful for features? I miss using 2007 when the ribbon was introduced and the UI finally felt organized.

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Using something with support (e.g. vulnerabilities being fixed) is important. 2019 is about to stop getting fixes.

This is my main reason. Additionally, yes, some of the Excel features that would attract me to it over LibreOffice Calc—such as the aforementioned lambdas—aren't available in older, non-365 versions of Office.

> I'm curious why people bother tolerating modern versions of MS Office when they could instead use an offline version like 2019 and call it a day?

I use the online version because it worked out cheaper than the offline version + Dropbox.

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