[basiliskparty]

Not disagreeing with you, as everyone has different workflows etc. but my experience is really different. I've found LibreOffice entirely suitable for heavy duty work, completely fine.

Microsoft products crash inexplicably on our systems too, and in fact, we have much weirder problems with corrupted instances and things than we've ever had when using LibreOffice. I also have serious problems with the Office UI, basically that the ribbon UI as it's implemented is inconsistent and incoherent, which is frustrating as hell. If you're going to have a ribbon/tab UI, make it consistent throughout, and don't have special exceptions for some functions.

Having said that, I do think LibreOffice loses to Microsoft's edge in some areas of polish, like in implementing equations, and in drawing figures. Some of the UI with the drawing actions are much more intuitive in Office.