Annoyingly enough, the other day got the first RTF file I've gotten in probably 20 years. To make matters worse, it was JSON that the customer decided should be sent as an RTF attachment to an email.

Of course I run Linux on my work computer so I didn't have wordpad anyway. I had to use a cli utility to convert it to text, then use vscode to properly format it, since he conversion removed all the indentation/spacing.

If I never see another RTF file again, it'll be too soon.

Word is not included with Windows apprently so Wordpad is useful at work when I don't have time to install LibreOffice.

Wordpad is for whatever people use it for, and that is mostly looking at files in some sort of text (words on a pad). My point is if microsoft removes the ability to open a text file then the consequences are on them.

I like using it when I want to create a simple rtf document and not use a bloated Office.

Wordpad can also open most Word files. Even though I have Office, I open word files in wordpad all the time, because it's so much faster to open. When I just need one small piece of info, that I am going to copy and paste, it saves me time.

Spell checker works in literally every part of windows (more so where you don't want it), this is the lamest weak sauce example on why you need to give me $20 ever.