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WordPad was in that weird area between Notepad and Word (oh I get it, WordPad). I nevel felt like there was much use for it.
In the 90s, there was no LibreOffice/OpenOffice, and Word was expensive. It did rich text WYSIWYG formatting for free. Was never great, but it was functional.
Not much point to it anymore, though.
It was useful back in Windows 98 when Notepad wouldn't open anything bigger than 64KB.
That's about the last time I used it.
For all intents and purposes it was free word
I haven't really used word in over half a decade since TeX beats it in every conceivable way.
Wordpad was useful in the sparse few cases where I was forced to open a .doc or .docx and couldn't be arsed to upload the file to Google docs
I guess it will be missed for that