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Difficult, but possible. We did this with Buzzword at Adobe. The hardest part was the UX, honestly. Most knowledge workers need some hand holding, to say nothing of teachers and students (we had success selling to high school teachers).

The typical excuse is file space. The next excuse is privacy/security concerns. The next excuse is usually that other tools do it better (SharePoint, svn, git) for the types of files that really matter.

MS Word has a Track Changes feature that kind of does this, and it's a pain because you have to remember to remove the revision history before you publish the document because it can expose details about the users that edited the document.

I think Apple introduced this in 10.7: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202255

IMO this is better handled by the OS than by each individual app.