Personally I disagree. Older versions of office were better, yes, but we've been on ribbons for a while now. It's awful UX, we're all just used to Microsoft making shit software that mostly works so we look past it.
This is pretty consistent across all Microsoft products. Over time they sort of deteriorate and rot. We're up to, like, a dozen different settings windows in Windows now. Half of them don't have an "apply" button. The other half don't even report when configuration fails. And, cherry on top, Microsoft has taken a "pretend it didn't happen" approach to modern error reporting. So, you don't even have a number to take to customer service.
It's difficult to take Microsoft software seriously when Excel can't open two workbooks with the same name (for three decades, btw) and Windows says "oops! Windows made a fucky wucky :(" when anything bad happens. And, heaven forbid you have to configure IIS on Windows Server. Jesus Christ, I would rather blow my head off, blend the flesh chunks into a smoothie, and then drink the aforementioned smoothie by pouring it into my now exposed neck hole.
But, bright side, at least NTFS is only 1000x slower than competing filesystems (ext4, btrfs, zfs). So, you can grab a cup of coffee while trying to open the logs on your failing Windows Server.
This is pretty consistent across all Microsoft products. Over time they sort of deteriorate and rot. We're up to, like, a dozen different settings windows in Windows now. Half of them don't have an "apply" button. The other half don't even report when configuration fails. And, cherry on top, Microsoft has taken a "pretend it didn't happen" approach to modern error reporting. So, you don't even have a number to take to customer service.
It's difficult to take Microsoft software seriously when Excel can't open two workbooks with the same name (for three decades, btw) and Windows says "oops! Windows made a fucky wucky :(" when anything bad happens. And, heaven forbid you have to configure IIS on Windows Server. Jesus Christ, I would rather blow my head off, blend the flesh chunks into a smoothie, and then drink the aforementioned smoothie by pouring it into my now exposed neck hole.
But, bright side, at least NTFS is only 1000x slower than competing filesystems (ext4, btrfs, zfs). So, you can grab a cup of coffee while trying to open the logs on your failing Windows Server.