I think his product has evolved quite a bit.

From my view, the same wariness should be applied to Word.

For at least a decade after the master document feature was released, Word would irrevocably cross-mungulate documents controlled by a master document. Undo didn't work in those cases, and it was a matter of "when," not "if" it would happen.

I have to use Word at work, but most of what I write is in regards to things running under Linux or Unix. Vim in markdown, pandoc to docx, and I fit in with the crowd without actually touching Word.

Listerene wrote:

After (repeated) bad experiences with Writing Outliner, I'm not trusting
anything that developer produces, ever again.

He might be a "great guy" but ime he's an incompetent programmer. Having
a Scrivener equivalent within Word is a great concept but having your
work vanish? Not so great. Not just with one version, but EVERY version
I tried. After #3, I finally got the message that the guy didn't
actually know what he was doing.

Perhaps he's caught on to the whole programming thing since those early
days, but I'm not about to find out.