A year or so ago I spent several hundred bucks on a version of MS Word from 2019 explicitly so that it would not update and give be subscription nonsense or AI bullshit.
It updated and broke everything. Now I can't create or edit documents and I'm out a whole bunch of money.
I hate this future. I'm so fucking pissed off. I just opened MS Word to look at a manuscript and suddenly I can't create or edit any documents because I don't have Microsoft 365. I'm not fucking buying MS 365, I bought THIS single license version of Word in 2024.