>It's just too fiddly, requiring way more "IT people" running around configuring Samba shares and printer drivers.

IIRC several German states went with nextcloud to make the transition a bit smoother. No idea about the effort when it comes to print servers, but on the other hand Denmark is quite digitized at this point and I would imagine printing papers is less of a thing there than in Germany.

>And LibreOffice is many many years behind MS Office, and it'll continue to be that way.

I believe you, but could you elaborate on what's missing?