Microsoft announced today that it will deprecate WordPad with a future Windows update as it's no longer under active development, though the company did not specify the precise timing of this change.
Am completely expecting this to be due to falling office sales or fear that people will realize they don't need expensive Office every few years when WordPad has 90% of functionality for daily use.
I expect this will make a lot of people very angry since I know many users of WordPad.
I personally like the look and feel of FreeOffice better. Fairly enough, I haven't used Libre in many years, but it always felt kind of clunky and when I tried Free it was very comfortable and familiar to use, as a lifetime Word-er.
They changed their licensing and specifically for robot users so I suspect it's to funnel those users into licenses which is a lot more than consumers.