Reminds me of Zawinski's Law of Software Envelopment[^1,2]: "Every program attempts to expand until it can read mail. Those programs which cannot so expand are replaced by ones which can."

[^1]: https://lawsofsoftwareengineering.com/laws/zawinskis-law/

[^2]: https://www.jwz.org/hacks/

Too true. I gave up trying to fight it years ago and now write all my documents in Emacs and edit my code with Microsoft Word.

Except Vim of course.