MicrosoftPeterL64 thank you for the clarification – yeah, I am fully aware that hacking the registry is only a temporary solution as long as the trickling rollout lasts and the current version still carries the old program code along, and that the Devs in all likelihood intend to remove that code eventually... That the hack only works because the registry entries are flagged as experimental is of course important to keep in mind but on the other hand is only partially relevant because we are still forced to clumsily resort to unsupported measures (basically sabotage) and via this route only can deactivate experimental features altogether and not selectively so far (as far as I can tell). I presume this should of course not hinder MS developers themselves from implementing toggles in the settings since they know which specific code to target, if they are willing to retain that code for now or for how long it takes. All that is stopping them is they clearly don’t wanna.
My point is that a.) the current buzz should serve as a wake-up-call to maybe rethink that roadmap for phasing out classic comments too soon. Evidently this is not a smooth transition, modern comments are NOT YET READY for at least a variety of professional user cases and the old code needs to be retained for a little while longer as a backup. And b.), if we are the unlucky ones picked early on for this experiment, I don’t see why it should not be possible to opt out again even if only temporarily until this thing is ironed out some more. By this point, I have not only lost days of accumulated working time due to crippled efficiency but have also spent countless hours typing detailed and constructive (I hope) feedback in-app, here and elsewhere. I feel that I’ve “done my part”. Do I now still have to suffer through this until things are improved half a year down the line? Do I still have to pay for a defective product that does no longer function properly for reasons that are clearly the maker’s fault, or is MS now paying me for playing their guinea pig and testing their unfinished ideas? Yeah? No? Then fix it MS.
Yes, I also have an old perennial licence for Office 2007 lying around. I’ll have to see how that goes in a few weeks when the subscription runs out – I have not yet looked into possible incompatibility issues and from a cybersecurity standpoint this also might not be the smartest move. I’ll have to see if switching to LibreOffice makes more sense these days. I hear Google Docs is also all the rage (it must be if MS seems bent on copying it...) but I’d rather have a dedicated offline writing program.
