Word perfect was always the better product. Still have a copy of v9 I believe was last version along with Borland paradox for a db program - again better than MS access ever hoped to be. Lotus vs excel though, ok I will give the advantage to excel along with power point over Harvard graphics. If Corel had Microsoft’s marketing ability, we might still have WP and the two products trying to one-up each other every year.
Absolutely LOVED Paradox — especially in DOS. Access is fun, but Paradox made more sense (to me).
DOS WP was best, too. Sadly, when WP went the way of Windows, it lost some functionality. I have some version (6 I think), but never use it any more. I loved that you could use WP tables as a spreadsheet and do math in it.
Since I retired 17 years ago, I don’t worry too much about any of it.