[vrganj]

Depends on what you do.

Are you building a slide deck on your systems architecture? Probably doesn't matter.

Are you building a marketing deck on your new corporate identity? Probably matters a lot.

Either way, the tool I'm using shouldn't be the one deciding what matters and what doesn't. Just let me use my font as I please!

[Andrex]

I could see some kafkaesque organization writing-up or firing someone for using the wrong font on a PowerPoint presentation.

Such companies should be mocked and shamed, not held up as examples to follow.

[brk]

It doesn't matter on the corporate identity either.

[selectodude]

It may not matter to you, but in this circumstance, your opinion doesn’t matter.

[SAI_Peregrinus]

It only matters to the designers. The users don't care which sans-serif font the designers picked, they all look the same.

[ozaark]

You'd be hesitant to trust a brand if it can't keep consistent styling. Branding helps users identify a brand and believe it or not the aesthetics of a brand make a great deal of impact on consumers.

As others have said, your point comes across as "let's remove design who cares" because design and human computer interaction roles stopped where your understanding ends. Everything looks the same to you after all (it doesn't, you just haven't noticed it affecting your decision making).

[SAI_Peregrinus]

Consistency is not the same as making a technically-unique-but-visually-indistinguishable Helvetica clone.

[circuit10]

It’s subtle, but attention to detail all around will add up to something that looks polished. I appreciate that as a user, at least

[rafram]

Fine, I’ll take the bait. If this is true, then why isn’t everything in the world Arial/Helvetica?

[bigstrat2003]

Because people are stupid enough to worry about many things which don't matter. This includes, but is not limited to, font choices.

[47282847]

Interesting how you seem so sure about what matters to other people, when the reality is that anything matters that people say matters to them. If people care about fonts, they do care about fonts.

If I follow your train of thought to its logical conclusion, nothing matters. Which is correct, but sort of pointless to state. On top of this nothingness, we typically stack personal preferences.

[vrganj]

The designers are generally the ones doing and watching presentations on design. They are also the users of the office suite in this case.