[TheOtherHobbes]

MacWrite was very basic, even compared to 1st Word, although it did support multiple fonts, which weren't possible on the ST without some effort.

1st Word Plus (1987) was a huge improvement and used professionally in magazine publishing.

MS Word was always bloated and poorly-designed in comparison.

In terms of getting useful work done with a minimum of effort, all of the 80s WPs, both command-line and WYSIWYG, were superior to Word.