I mean that was far dumber. That's on par with some other manufacturers who recently ditched their century old logo to go with a boring font. Name brand recognition is a thing, and they have experts in their PR that can tell them that.

Literally no reason to worry about branding when Word is synonymous with word processor and Excel is synonymous with spreadsheet. The only real competition is Google Drive, but they are shoving Gemini into everything too so...

It reminds me when augmented reality was the tech buzzword (lasted only a few months, but it did happen) and you'd go at those tech conferences and absolutely random companies would try shoving AR in their banners, so you'd see stuff like "AR/VR light switch" and as bizarre as that was it meant they got more investor money lol