Currently at least text properties and size is on the main screen in the current defaults for Impress and, just like PowerPoint, only made visible and editable when you click something which has a text size. Maybe it was different in the timeframe you were talking about (barring any actual information on the request) but this combined with how abrasive your comment is leaves little reasoning for why it's horrible and casts serious doubts the ban was actually related to asking about interface enhancements even if that's when you were banned.
FWIW I prefer PowerPoint over Impress as well (particularly when it comes to the browser side of things on the go), using one or the other is just not a vendetta of mine.
> I'm deeply convinced there is a Microsoft plant undermining everything.
It's conspiracy theory thinking, but I'm getting there, too. These things have been too close to being complete replacements for commercial products for so long, but somehow still fall over on problems that have been complained about for a decade or more.
There's not one of them that some massive corporation with sights set on adding a letter to faang couldn't pick up and turn into a legitimate competitor in a month or six, khtml-style. Instead they often sit on moribund subpages of some larger project website, with a blog updated once every year or two.
These projects have to be targets for sabotage by their commercial competitors, just as government initiatives are, just cheaper. For e.g. Adobe it's less than a rounding error to e.g. spend 500K/year supplying a developer to e.g. Scribus[0] to make sure that it remains difficult to contribute to, or makes bad architecture choices, and that hypothetical developer could be one of its biggest actual contributors.
Maybe it's just because they have to spend a lot of time chasing Gtk, which makes it another redhat problem?
edit: The 95% state of all a lot of these FOSS packages is also evidence that there are zero tech billionaire philanthropists. It would take a total of one of them to grab all of these projects and wrangle them into good form.
[0] This is an actual hypothetical, I'm not making an accusation about Scribus. Between the GIMP and Inkscape, they literally are the only people who made a real effort with color for years. Inkscape openly said that their software was only for making images for the web (as opposed to print), as if there were a rational reason to cripple their product and narrow people's interest in it. Now that deviantart is gone, will anyone care about Inkscape anymore? Will the dopamine hit hobbyists get from sharing generative art cause Inkscape to be totally left behind? Why is it hard to design a form for your office's paperwork in Inkscape, a vector drawing program, if forms are just straight horizontal lines and text? Why aren't they trying to merge with Scribus (and LibreOffice Impress/Draw) and create a complete pdf solution? I have no idea.
I'm being very ranty here, and I do want to say that I very much appreciate the work that people are doing for free, in their spare time, for others.
I once got banned for asking to put 'text size' on the main screen for the powerpoint knockoff.
Text size seems pretty important to have. You shouldn't have to google how to change the text size.
I'm deeply convinced there is a Microsoft plant undermining everything.