You can get a lot more done today without Microsoft than you could 20 years ago, but it is very hard to not have an accessible copy of Word if you interact with lawyers (where formatting and change tracking matters, and mostly compatible like libreoffice or google docs is not sufficient.
Also, if you take remote tests for school (which was almost mandatory for some, and now for almost all), many places require you install some windows only rootkit so they could claim to have monitored you.
My children’s remote school mostly works without any MS stuff, but every now and then it doesn’t and I have to fire up a VM.
Monopoly is still there, even if it is not as tight as it once was.
