A Linux distribution is more than the sum of its parts. Having out-of-the-box ability to read MS office docs is a huge deal. Nobody wants to fuck around installing something extra to read a defacto standard document format.
edit: I just checked my Win11 VM, and Wordpad is included by default. It also reads and writes docx and odt.
If you are not going to buy Microsoft Office, LibreOffice may be your best bet on all platforms.
These days, if you ARE going to buy Office, it is likely to be a subscription to Office 365. If you are a subscriber, you can your documents in a web browser in Linux as well as you can on Windows. You can even use Edge.
For independent individual users, if we could somehow arrange it so that LO were installed by PC builders / laptop vendors - that would increase its user base from ~200M to 2 Billion within a few years. It would trounce MS Office.
If your company has standardized on Office 365 or Google Docs, the experience is pretty similar on all platforms ( Linux included ).
I use Outlook in a browser more than I launch it as an application ( even on Windows ). The same is true of Teams. To be honest, I do not use Word heavily much anymore ( but it works more than well enough to read any doc I might need on Windows ).
On Linux, I do tend to use LibreOffice to author presentations or spreadsheets rather than PowerPoint or Excel in the browser. Office 365 online would work fine for most of what I do though.
LibreOffice is more for people that DO NOT work large companies I think.