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I took 5+ years off from Libre, returning last year. It's come a long way and has fully replaced my need for Google Docs and MS Office. If you were turned off in the past, it might be worth revisiting.
Same, I had tried Openoffice/LibreOffice in the past and had many problems. Since I got a personal MS Office License very cheap from my employer I used that and didn't really feel the need that much to look for alternatives.
Then about a year ago, I reworked some deployments of my self hosted things and added Collabora to my Nextcloud "just for fun". And I was pleasantly surprised by it. Since that is based on libre office, I had the urge to check that out and realized that it should have everything I usually need. Also I was already dual booting for a while but still hadn't really switched many "workflows" to Linux, because I was lazy to search for alternatives. This now meant that there was less friction to use Linux as a bonus.