At university the school gave away Office for free to all students and we still all used Google Docs. Google ate Word's lunch by making the 99.99% experience waaay better.

> Google ate Word's lunch by making the 99.99% experience waaay better.

That is fascinating to me

I have never used MS 365, but due to work have extensively used Google docs

It is awful. I am continually amazed at how awful it is

Astoundingly the most awful part is searching my docs. Compared to a directory tree of MD docs, it is simply dreadful. Oh Google, how the mighty have fallen!

MS 365 is worse than that?

Chromebooks have been heavily embedded in US schools since 2014 or so. That's probably had an impact on students preferring Google Docs.