“I can vividly recall resisting the change from DOS with Word Perfect and Lotus 123 to Windows.”
That would be me. WP for DOS was powerful. When it succumbed to Windows, it lost a lot of functionality. Sprint by Borland also was a powerful word processing application.
I helped teach a class on the macro language included in later versions of Lotus 123. It was a great tool that was in my opinion was much easier to use than Microsoft's Visual BASIC. For the class I rewrote some programs that I had done Microsoft's original BASIC to do the same thing for a demonstration. Most of the students were familiar with BASIC at that time. The programs went from hundreds of lines down to dozens.