Wordperfect is/was (and is still today!) an excellent word processing program ... I fell out of my chair the first time I hit "reveal codes", and saw what formatting was being applied to my text, and I could fix that formatting directly.
Sadly, over the years, vendors "improve" a software application, and features that we rely on slowly disappear, being replaced with stuff that someone else decides is important, but which you now find missing or changed beyond usefulness. The version parade marches on, and everyone forces you to march with it.
You just want to pick an application version number, and stop time in its tracks, so you can keep using it forever. While, of course, making use of modern stuff ...
Luckily, I'm still running that old WP for DOS, in a VM, right alongside one or more OS/2 (ArcaOS) VM's, and alongside a mainframe VM, and more ... all on one machine. Modern browsers and x64 apps also available. AToF (over in the virtualization sub-forum of this site) allows it, and I've recaptured the value of my old WP for DOS license, still being used today, many decades later.
As long as we can keep the actual bits around (*preserve* those old programs), we can bring them back to life and make them usable again.
So, AToF a laptop or desktop, and bring up Wordperfect (or whatever) as you remembered it, and use it again today! And in the same machine, AI that golf program as well, and run it in OS/2 ... don't wait for someone else to get around to it.