Why you should never write a book in .doc

You would assume that the writer would then tell you which tools do those tasks better. If he says that in this post, I couldn't find it. I did find him saying that "LibreOffice isn’t bad per se, but there are better writing tools out there." I read through his suggested "better" writing tools and the first one he likes better is a writing tool that only works on Macs/iOS and the other is a WordPress plugin. Weird suggestions.

Suggestion: save your time and read something else. There's nothing more than a Mac user's opinion going on here. As a 15+ year author, I've used .doc probably 90% of the time and it's worked, as it does for nearly every major publisher in the past ten years. There - that's my opinion. I just expressed it more succinctly.

But the title would be more appropriate as "Why you should never write a book in .doc *in Libre Office". All his complains are inexact or just not true in Word.

I was expecting more insights about the format itself and not about his experience related to the use of .doc in Libre Office (which by the way, also crash in my wife's mac book pro).