[runako]

Not as much with spellcheckers because even when they started to get popular, it was apparent that many people cannot spell English. So it was very natural.

People pushed back on the grammar checks when they landed in Word.

Before that, people pushed back on calculators in secondary schools. This was a huge point of contention all classes except trigonometry, and calculators were definitely not allowed in the SAT/ACT.

[kergonath]

> People pushed back on the grammar checks when they landed in Word.

Word’s grammar checker has improved quite a lot. But I absolutely hate the style checker and its useless advice. Yes, I know how the passive voice works and yes, it is appropriate in this sentence. Also, it’s not really a problem in English but Word still can’t do spaces properly so it wants to put normal spaces everywhere and it’s fucking ugly. I wish it would spend as much time fixing inappropriate breaking spaces (in English as well).

[shakna]

Word's style checker trying to enforce US norms, when the Australian dictionary is in use aggravates me.

Yes, we use the Oxford comma. We teach it in our schools. Stop trying to tell me its not necessary - the audience expects it!

[mrguyorama]

It was just as useless here in the states:

"Sentence fragment, consider revising"

It's dialog in a story you ignorant clod.

[Gibbon1]

What I think is one should question if something is the point of the exercise.

I'd argue that where writing spelling is something completely arbitrary and thus of no fundamental importance. Arithmetic is the same way, lots of algorithms to do that and they are all valid. So calculators and spell checkers are fine. And you should use them.

The same is not true for grammar. Getting AI to write an essay for you.