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The problem I have with this is, that it won't be compatible with Marcors and other stuff - Libre Office does work perfectly well for "normal" Office stuff and even basic excel...but anything beyond that is actually needed more than another "basic" Office software.
In LibreOffice you can code marcos using Python. The actual problem is cross compatibility ( while its possible to execute VBA in LibreOffcie
I know. The point though is, there are projects that have countless hours of work in them and sometimes even work together with access - not only would you need to invest time to redo those, you'd also have to learn python... Which is most often the argument for a switch to Libre falls on its face. I don't like it, and I don't agree with that, but it is what I am confronted with nearly every day over countless different companies...
Agree, grip of the lock-in is sitting tight .. But as you mentioned, its less the lack of software than it is path dependencies.