In the age of Google docs who even uses MS Office any more ?
I like having my docs on my computer.
Google docs and other freeware word processing apps are fine for creating new documents, but if you have decades’ worth of old Word .doc & .docx files for your work, the free stuff doesn’t really do the job all that well. The fonts are different, the formatting can be off... spacing, tabs, you name it. Sure, if you want to spent 10-15 minutes you can probably whipping your old document back into share with the free stuff. But if you just want to open the document and move on, Word is usually the most efficient way to go, so you bite the bullet and make Bill Gates a little bit richer.
I have it on my Macs. And don't mind using iCloud with it. Seamless using Excel and Word on different Macs, picking up with editing on documents in iCloud right where I left off on a different Mac. I don't trust Google at all, never use it. As for documents in the cloud, I regularly back up to local backups on my home network.
All of my customers use MS Office. I’d be cutting my own throat if I tried to do without it. I have to have the track changes functions, plus upload and download docs from a secure server.
Because of work requirements, many of us are under an obligation to keep what we do on hardware that we control. Also we work with other people who work with MS Word so have to be compatible.