Word isn't awful. It's just that WordPefect had many very nice
features.
"Had?" Is it gone?
Well, no, but I just found this:
WordPerfect and other "classic" applications will not - and will
never - run on Intel-based Macintosh computers such as the MacBook,
MacBook, and Intel-based iMac and Mac Mini machines. It may be
possible to run WordPerfect on PPC-emulator software that runs inside
OS X on an Intel-based Macintosh, but the the result will never be
worth the effort. Performance will be painfully slow and access to
files and printers will be difficult or impossible.