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[–] ulterno@programming.dev 0 points 15 hours ago

where I, an average user, needs so long to find such a basic function

I am not sure about that.
The default UI is similar to the old MS Office Word and the new alternative (which from what I remember, LibreOffice actually asks you to choose from in a dialogue on first start, so you don't need to look through menus to set your preference) uses the newer tabbed paradigm.

And while I do prefer the new one, I didn't find the old one any harder than MS Office Word 2003 or the older version that came around Win 98.

The only thing that made me different from the average user back then, was that I actually read and understood user prompts before clicking "Next" or whatever.