OMG I'm so happy you never had to write documentation in the 1990's!

I used *roff back then. Now I have to put it into confluence. What a downgrade.

I did, and Word version 2 was an excellent product. WordBasic was incredible. There was even a graphical dialog-builder, so you could invoke dialogs from your macros. I wrote a macro that parsed and re-wrote SQL queries for a Big-6 consulting firm, saving them man-weeks if not months.

Word today is a ghastly, incompetent shitshow.

What are you talking about? Word is the standard for docs in many large engineering companies.

That does not make it good.

Oh, it totally sucks. I'm pointing out that the pain didn't end in the 90's, and continues 30 years later :-(

I used to work with a guy that used docx files for all his note taking. Basically did all text writing (other than code) in Word. We had Notepad++ at the time as well, so he just preferred Word for some reason.