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Aldus Persuasion was far superior to Powerpoint. Sadly it got bought and killed.

Adobe should never have been allowed to buy them, there had been an anti-trust decree which was later removed...

There was quite the profusion of office productivity software at one point, some of which had approaches that I preferred (at least for some purposes) to those that ended up being enshrined in the Microsoft suite.

One of the things I like about Google Workplace is it ended up stripping out a lot of the sort of cruft that Microsoft added over the years and ended up with components that are more streamlined for my generally fairly simple needs.

Yes, Lotus Freelance. Also IBM Storyboard.

Not sure which of those had vector graphics in the same style as modern PowerPoint (Storyboard was bitmapped), and whether old PowerPoint already had vector graphics.

Nothing from Microsoft was ever the first.

And HyperCard!

Harvard Graphics was more charting software. A bunch of office suites in the early/mid-80s had the 'required' charting module.

Harvard Graphics truly was horrible to work with. Very unintuitive. PowerPoint felt like a revelation in comparison.

Don't forget hypercard

Yes, Harvard Graphics was good. I remember using it around 1991.