I know LibeOffice is derided for its compatibility issues with MS Office (and its name, and its reliance on java, etc), but this type of thing seems pretty important to me. Free software is very important (IMO) but has severe deficiencies because it lacks the straightforward economic incentives of closed-source software. So we'll probably never have fully free software consumer goods companies that are really excitin…
But LibreOffice demonstrates a huge win for a community-led project too: if the current maintainers try to move the code to a closed-source pay model, the project just forks.
I agree that LibreOffice hasn't achieved fit and finish, and I'm trying to be patient with that. I'm just happy it has survived. I think a huge downside to any closed-source project is when they end-of-life it. That could be simply because a new version is a ground-up scratch rewrite. Once the code is thrown away, all the effort to build it is lost.