You can add it back to the library from an older edition, and it will run fine if you want it badly enough.
Linux, BSD, and macOS users:
This is my reaction even as a Windows user. In my experience, notepad is used when you just need to read what's in the file and formatting and such doesn't really matter, or you explicitly want as little processing of the data as possible. Like opening files that really aren't text based files.
And then if you actually want formatting, images, fonts, etc to make something look good you get an actual document editor: Word, Libre Office, etc.
The only thing I see WordPad providing is it's pre-installed and does have more functionality than notepad. I have used WordPad a couple of times when I've been on a new computer that doesn't yet have everything installed and I don't want to take the time to install an actual editor for whatever I'm doing. It's pretty damn rare though.
how will I read the instructions a vendor sent me for a windows server that is a word doc because who knows? Oh no... Anyway
"No one's paying for Microsoft Word, that thing that used to be free so... We gotta kill this so people too fucking stupid to use Libre Office get on board."
eh, there's plenty of tools out there like notepad++, atom, obsidian, etc.
I can see truth to either position presented in these comments, but I don't like being a fence sitter. That being said, I would think making it available but not mandatory would satisfy both opinions, right? Making it unavailable altogether is a move that seems to have an ulterior motive.
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