Agreed. I used Office XP (2002) until... I think about 2013 or so where I started running into incompatibility problems that just couldn't be resolved no matter what I tried.
That was a good version as well. I can even stomach - barely - Office 2007, with all the ribbon-related goofery, but the low-contrast UI on the newest stuff is just sadistic.
(I mean, it's not enough to make me switch to Open Office or Nacho Libre...)
It pushed me off of Office completely. I used Office XP as long as I could, then 2007 when I could. I gave up on 2013 completely - it's just not worth using a proprietary program that clearly hates its users.
If I need to export to Office I use Google Docs, because Libre is still too frustrating. If I don't need a .doc output, it's Latex for pretty things and Textedit for the rest.
I agree that most of the Office-analogues out there aren't very usable, but I'm surprised at how rarely I need one.
(I mean, it's not enough to make me switch to Open Office or Nacho Libre...)