All technology is about making stuff work like clockwork. That's like.. what it's all about. This applies to human processes just as much as machine ones.

Conformity is one way to create good clockwork machines.

Your reasons strike me as childish. Word is still the best word processor by far. Personally I respect people who use Word because it means they're willing to use the best software despite it being associated with Microsoft. Word for Mac is about a billion times more sophisticated than Pages.

Anyway to each his own.