When they introduced the “ribbon” in 2007, that was it for me.
I don’t like the “ribbon” either. I found a plugin for 2010 that gives me the old style back.
Remember the hubbub about the Orb. Was supposed to be the next best thing since sliced bread.
And then it was gone, apparently to celebrate rearranging the menu structure so as to obliterate decades of accumulated user experience with their product. I think they’re on the third version since the major menu overhaul and I still can’t find squat in Word, even though I could probably tell you from memory where it was in the 2003 version, which was essentially the same as all versions prior.