[dudeinhawaii]

I think you're underestimating the features used within Office. Offices isn't bloated because they wanted to add fluff. It's bloated because of the large number of customers that have differing but overlapping needs.

The Engineers: Word processor with basic features is fine

Management and Execs: Comments, Review, Multi-user editing, History, Tables, change tracking.

Marketing: Image placement and alignment, layers, embedding, templates, shapes

Research/Doc Writers: Table of contents, page numbering, cross-referencing, formula insertion, citations, figure tables, export to pdf

All customers (at some point): Layout, margins, padding, spellcheck

As engineers we tend to think "just deliver a simple word processor". For who?