Perhaps it's possible that some people simply don't see the benefit of the newly added functionality, because they don't really use it?
For example, personally I'd be served perfectly well with something like LibreOffice, so from my point of view, all of these new solutions do not indeed do much new (that I'd benefit from) and sometimes do things worse (cloud based platform with all the drawbacks that come with it vs local software in open formats).
That's not to say that the point that you're making wouldn't be important, quite on the contrary - and even if the software doesn't do anything new, even in those cases one can make an argument for refinement being a worthy pursuit (as long as it's not a useless rewrite).
Perhaps text editing isn't the best example, given how different people's expectations can be in that regard.
Perhaps it's possible that some people simply don't see the benefit of the newly added functionality, because they don't really use it?
For example, personally I'd be served perfectly well with something like LibreOffice, so from my point of view, all of these new solutions do not indeed do much new (that I'd benefit from) and sometimes do things worse (cloud based platform with all the drawbacks that come with it vs local software in open formats).
That's not to say that the point that you're making wouldn't be important, quite on the contrary - and even if the software doesn't do anything new, even in those cases one can make an argument for refinement being a worthy pursuit (as long as it's not a useless rewrite).
Perhaps text editing isn't the best example, given how different people's expectations can be in that regard.