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I was working on my thesis a couple days ago using Word, and it permanently deleted a whole line of text when I pressed ctrl+Z to undo a mistake.
That happened with every line on the page until i copied everything to a different text editor and then copied it back to Word.
I respect your take but I will never respect Word.
Using word for a thesis sounds like a nightmare I would never dare to do
For big projects like that, stuff like LaTeX is so much better in my experience, you could even set up version control for it with, say, git, or similar
"I love typing in ten thousand pounds of syntatic sugar"
-- me, an idiot who used embedded images for formulas in a markdown file which gets converted into a PDF
"Totally way easier than LaTeX, I swear"
You may benefit from checking out Typst which gives all of the benefits (and some more) of LaTeX, but without all of the syntax garbage.
Actually learned about this recently too and it looks really cool, but haven't had to use latex in a while so I'll defnitley give it a shot next time I have to do document generation