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Sometimes. Sometimes people do just want to have things be exactly the same, and that's unrealistic.
LibreOffice is not feature-complete compared to MS Office, though. Some people do regularly use collaborative editing as part of their workflow, and there's not support for that yet. Furthermore, LibreOffice does not yet fully support tracking changes, which can be integral to some users (as it is to the comic creator).
I largely agree that MS products are bullshit, but assuming people's issues and belittling their reasoning shore as hail ain't gonna make them switch. It's kinda the issue that this cartoonist is frustrated about. (Though they did have to portray the discussion pretty unrealistically to get that across.)
The biggest problem if your boss sends you a file that has anything more complex than text as formatting, opening in not-Word will make it look different.
At the least now you gave yourself the extra work of fixing the formating and then praying that then it looks the same for your boss, and at the worst you're going to get a call back asking why the file you sent looks like shit.
A lot of evangelists are unemployed of self employed.
Good point, I actually had a similar issue when opening a LibreOffice file in Word. I think that's more just the problem with having one standard for everything. That said, FOSS projects do need to work toward total compatibility with closed-source projects if they want to have a fighting chance of dominating the market. If LibreOffice really could just be a drag and drop replacement for MS Office, I don't think anyone would choose to use MSO.