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Google Docs UX Has Become Overly Complex for Basic Tasks

Users find Google Docs has become difficult to use, with poor design making simple tasks unnecessarily complicated. This is a vendor-side UX degradation complaint affecting general office workers. The problem reflects feature bloat rather than an addressable market gap.

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