I agree with what you are saying.google drive is the only one I really use anymore, and I dont know of any other word processor that saves with every keystroke on an external server, I have lost too much work in word documents that I cant use it anymore.

However, lets remember that those of us who can figure out steemit are in like the top 1% of technical knowlege lol

Google is still the most user friendly option out there, and since most people arent tech wizzards, its really the only option available to them right now.

Even looking at a youtube alternative like Dtube, it is incredibly buggy and has a lot of problems, the average user is not going to stick around for that

I believe in supporting alternative platforms, and that is why I am here, but we need to remember that most of the internet is barely technically literate, and they are going to use what is in front of them and what they can figure out

So even if they dont have a literall monopoly on the technology, they still seem like the only option to the basic user