WordPerfect and WordStar were always pretty yuck IMO once newer generation products came along. I was pretty much a fan of Microsoft word even in the DOS days. (Even Multimate which was basically a DOS clone of a Wang product.)

I loved WP5.1 for DOS because of one feature: "show codes" - it made it trivial to understand why the formatting looked the way it did, and to fix formatting problems. Other than that it was not outstanding software :-)

I never used Word in the DOS days so I can't compare, but it was obvious that Word for Windows was written natively for Windows and it "felt" much more natural in the Windows of that time.

Neither WordPerfect nor WordStar even connected for me. No disrespect for anyone for whom they did.

Never really loved Word for Windows to be honest, though I used it a lot over the years. Though liked the DOS version.

The NeXTstep version was _very_ nice --- looked and felt like a native app, but still had "Reveal Codes" --- nicest version of WordPerfect I every used.