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I agree - we're coming up on 20 years of the ribbon, it is too jarring to go back to the fixed toolbars and the vast majority of computer users have no experience with the "old way."

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Except for all the people who use Google Docs, I suppose.

This is true I suppose. Google Docs is a bit different. I'm not very familiar with their offerings. Here in the US, most stop using it past grade school and graduate to MS products after, at least in my experience.

I don't think it matters since Universities will not be taking Google Doc submissions unless it's core ed classes, any beyond it will be LaTeX anyways.

LaTeX is no longer the king of universities, Word has been for quite some time part of the official templates.

https://www.acm.org/publications/authors/submissions

And I can tell that while at CERN, those using LaTeX on paper submissions were the minority, on ATLAS TDAQ/HLT group it was a mix of Word, and FrameMaker.

Maybe this is unique to my comp sci program, but all of our final papers in my program were required in LaTeX before graduating in 2023.

Google Docs implements the most popular 10% of features that people use 90% of the time.

It was said in the distant past that the last 10% of the time everyone is using different features — the long tail 90% of features. You had to implement them in your software.

When did we switch so we adapt our workflows instead, and only use the common features now? And software doesn't have to implement the long tail?

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