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I strongly prefer ribbon to the endless dropdowns and modals of LibreOffice and versions of Word that are more than a decade old.

I never understood the hate myself, LibreOffice and Old Word have one of the worst uis out there. It's like the Geocities of productivity software.

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It isn't about ribbon being inherently good or bad, it is how it required the retraining of dumb office staff that could barely hit the power on button of an office PC if it turned off. If you are using closed software and that kind of thing happens, either you try to hold on to an outdated unsupported version or pay the overhead of transitioning your staff to a new interface.

Same reason no one wants to even try Windows 8.

So change = bad?

Gotcha.

EDIT: FWIW, I use Windows8 and think it's superior to 7 in almost every regard :\

From a business perspective, especially in large corporate environments where the majority of your workforce is often mediocre, absolutely. It is wildly expensive to switch tech. It is why Microsoft has done so well with Windows for 20 years, businesses get on the purple dragon and Microsoft juggles keeping everything supported to keep them happy and unchanging.

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