Thanks for reading, Brian 😄 The Apple Ecosystem is indeed a great feature in itself. Maybe that was the deal breaker for me when I realised I could side load Word on Mac but not on iPad to make it work seamlessly. Even I have dabbled with VMs to make MS Office Suite work on my previous Mac but I was just exhausted of the whole setup and again no iPad support. Thats what pushed me towards Pages.

I hope Pages becomes your default word-processor too in the near future. Maybe this would get Apple to finally listen to its writer fans and bring more worthy updates to the app!