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Microsoft is killing WordPad in Windows after 28 years
(www.bleepingcomputer.com)
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
Wordpad is WYSIWIG, the alternatives you mentioned are more for replacing Notepad.
But yeah, why use WordPad when LibreOffice exists?
WordPad is wonderful for opening notepad documents written by modders who don't understand how to make paragraphs