What do you suggest to use instead?

PDF has some significant advantages, like fixed formatting and embedded fonts; things you don’t get with docs, docsx or even odt. It’s not meant for files that you have to edit much, but it’s perfectly suitable as a pre-print format and for archiving stuff.

I too hate that it’s so inherently tied to Adobe (or other costly software), but I still use it regularly, despite using Linux and FOSS exclusively for years now.

Yes, but with a dimensional portal to Hell opened on them. Or where do you suppose the demons come from.

MSG isn’t just enhancing umami, it tastes umami by itself, because the umami taste is triggered by receptors on the tongue that react to some amino acids, one of them being the glutamate in Mono-Sodium-Glutamate. The salty part comes from the sodium, which has its own receptors as well.

This stuff is literally made for our taste buds.