I agree with you completely. I had an old, old copy of WordPerfect that worked perfectly and was instinctive in use. One day I replaced it with the upgraded version, since the upgrade must be better.
What a load of crap. It took me a day to figure out how to make it stop reformatting everything that I wrote, and how to make it perform a simple task like writing a letter without turning it into a web page or a Powerpoint presentation.
I *loved* that old WordPerfect. I could do wonders with it. Hated it when my employer went to Windows-based cr*p.